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A Cased Pair Of Irish 25-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols
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A Cased Pair Of Irish 25-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, Nos. 7835 And 7836 For 1835 With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in gothic script along the top flat and with bright bore, case-hardened breeches (nipple recesses with old pitting) engraved with foliage on top and each with three platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved tangs and border engraved detented back-action locks, the former each with back-sight, the latter signed in gothic script on a scroll, foliate engraved dolphin hammers, figured half-stocks each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt with flat ovoidal pommel, reblued steel mounts comprising border engraved pommel-caps each with retaining screw centred on a foliate scroll, spur trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, trigger-plates each with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, vacant silver escutcheons, barrel-bolt escutcheons (bolts replaced) and fore-end caps, set triggers, and brass-mounted ramrods each with knurled threaded cap over the worm: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including associated Dixon & Sons brass-mounted powder-flask for revolvers with split-ring for suspension, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (minor damage), the exterior (old split along the back) with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle 21.8 cm. barrels Footnotes: Literature D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers: Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p. 75. Recorded as 'Best saw-handled duelling pistols' and sold to D. Daly Cf. two similar pairs sold in these Rooms, The Daniel Williams Collection..., 28 November 2018, lot 108; and Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 24 November 2021, lot 294 This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Cased Pair Of Irish 25-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Duelling Or Target Pistols By Wm. & Jn. Rigby, Dublin, Nos. 7835 And 7836 For 1835 With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in gothic script along the top flat and with bright bore, case-hardened breeches (nipple recesses with old pitting) engraved with foliage on top and each with three platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved tangs and border engraved detented back-action locks, the former each with back-sight, the latter signed in gothic script on a scroll, foliate engraved dolphin hammers, figured half-stocks each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt with flat ovoidal pommel, reblued steel mounts comprising border engraved pommel-caps each with retaining screw centred on a foliate scroll, spur trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, trigger-plates each with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, vacant silver escutcheons, barrel-bolt escutcheons (bolts replaced) and fore-end caps, set triggers, and brass-mounted ramrods each with knurled threaded cap over the worm: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including associated Dixon & Sons brass-mounted powder-flask for revolvers with split-ring for suspension, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (minor damage), the exterior (old split along the back) with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle 21.8 cm. barrels Footnotes: Literature D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers: Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p. 75. Recorded as 'Best saw-handled duelling pistols' and sold to D. Daly Cf. two similar pairs sold in these Rooms, The Daniel Williams Collection..., 28 November 2018, lot 108; and Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 24 November 2021, lot 294 This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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