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A Rare 20-Bore Flintlock Mail Coach Pistol
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A Rare 20-Bore Flintlock Mail Coach Pistol By J. Harding & Son, Boro, London, Dated 1833 With brass barrel signed in full in capitals along the flat at the breech, a letter 'T' beyond, and 'FOR HIS MAJESTYS MAIL COACHES' around the muzzle, plain tang, bright flat bevelled lock signed in capitals and dated across the stepped tail, safety-catch, figured full stock (old split in front of the lock and on the opposite side of the fore-end) with rounded butt, brass mounts of regulation type comprising scroll side-plate, butt-cap, trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, London proof marks and crowned broad arrow mark 22.5 cm. barrel Footnotes: Cf. a pair of very similar pistols by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns..., 29 July 2009, lot 485 James Harding is recorded as Gunmaker to General Post Office and was in business with his son at 82 Blackman Street, Borough, London between 1834 and 1836 For further information and for details of firearms built by Harding for the Post Office see Frederick Wilkinson, Those entrusted With Arms...,, 2002, pp. 120, 121, and for a record of existing examples pp. 254-256, Appendix 4 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 Rare 20-Bore Flintlock Mail Coach Pistol By J. Harding & Son, Boro, London, Dated 1833 With brass barrel signed in full in capitals along the flat at the breech, a letter 'T' beyond, and 'FOR HIS MAJESTYS MAIL COACHES' around the muzzle, plain tang, bright flat bevelled lock signed in capitals and dated across the stepped tail, safety-catch, figured full stock (old split in front of the lock and on the opposite side of the fore-end) with rounded butt, brass mounts of regulation type comprising scroll side-plate, butt-cap, trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, London proof marks and crowned broad arrow mark 22.5 cm. barrel Footnotes: Cf. a pair of very similar pistols by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns..., 29 July 2009, lot 485 James Harding is recorded as Gunmaker to General Post Office and was in business with his son at 82 Blackman Street, Borough, London between 1834 and 1836 For further information and for details of firearms built by Harding for the Post Office see Frederick Wilkinson, Those entrusted With Arms...,, 2002, pp. 120, 121, and for a record of existing examples pp. 254-256, Appendix 4 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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