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A Cased Pair Of Irish 40-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Officer's Pistols
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London, United Kingdom
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A Cased Pair Of Irish 40-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Officer's Pistols By Trulock & Son, 9 Dawson Street, Dublin, Circa 1835 With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrels each engraved 'DUBLIN' along the top flat and rifled with eight grooves, the bottom flats each with Irish registration mark 'L-H 1746' for County Louth, recoloured breeches each engraved with foliage on the top flat, tangs each engraved with foliage and owner's crest and motto behind the back-sight, border engraved back-action locks each signed in capitals and decorated with foliage, dolphin hammers (one replaced) each decorated en suite and operating on three bents, figured full stocks (one repaired on one side beneath the barrel-bolt) each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt, the latter with flat ovoidal pommel and steel cap engraved with foliage centred on the retaining screw, steel trigger-guards each with small pineapple finial and decorated with foliage on the border engraved bow, and stirrup ramrods: in associated relined and refitted oak case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the body covered in black leather (incomplete around the bottom edge), the interior of the lid with facsimile maker's trade label, the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon 17.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: The crest and motto is that of the Needham family, Earls of Kilmorey of Mourne Park, Co. Down, Ireland William Trulock & Son are recorded at Capel Street and 9 Dawson Street, Dublin between 1823 and 1842 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 40-Bore Percussion Saw-Handled Officer's Pistols By Trulock & Son, 9 Dawson Street, Dublin, Circa 1835 With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrels each engraved 'DUBLIN' along the top flat and rifled with eight grooves, the bottom flats each with Irish registration mark 'L-H 1746' for County Louth, recoloured breeches each engraved with foliage on the top flat, tangs each engraved with foliage and owner's crest and motto behind the back-sight, border engraved back-action locks each signed in capitals and decorated with foliage, dolphin hammers (one replaced) each decorated en suite and operating on three bents, figured full stocks (one repaired on one side beneath the barrel-bolt) each with characteristic spur and chequered rounded butt, the latter with flat ovoidal pommel and steel cap engraved with foliage centred on the retaining screw, steel trigger-guards each with small pineapple finial and decorated with foliage on the border engraved bow, and stirrup ramrods: in associated relined and refitted oak case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the body covered in black leather (incomplete around the bottom edge), the interior of the lid with facsimile maker's trade label, the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon 17.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: The crest and motto is that of the Needham family, Earls of Kilmorey of Mourne Park, Co. Down, Ireland William Trulock & Son are recorded at Capel Street and 9 Dawson Street, Dublin between 1823 and 1842 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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