BY SAMUEL NOCK, REGENT CIRCUS, LONDON, NO. 7348, CIRCA 1833

Details

A Fine Cased Pair Of 38-Bore Percussion Duelling Pistols
By Samuel Nock, Regent Circus, London, No. 7348, circa 1833
With browned twist octagonal barrels signed in full on the top flat, blued fore-sights, case-hardened patent breeches each engraved with a band of beadwork and with pierced platinum plug, scroll engraved case-hardened tangs each incorporating the back-sight, stepped signed case-hardened back-action locks engraved with monsters and scrolls and each with blued safety-catch, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, blued iron mounts including trigger-guards engraved en suite with the locks, and trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, silver shield-shaped escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, original serial numbered horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm, and nearly all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three-way flask covered in green leather, the lid with trade label and flush-fitting carrying handle, London proof marks
16in. (40.7cm.)

Literature

W. Keith Neal, Collecting Duelling Pistols, plate 16
Idem, 'Pistols for Two', p. 167 (illustrated)
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 439

Exhibited

The British Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, cat. no. 60

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

A handwritten note in the case signed by the late owner reads: 'The serial number on each of these pistols is 7348. They came from Scotland and were made with straight stocks in the style of the brass barrel fish-tail butt Scottish Dag - To the whim of a Scottish laird. An identical pistol in my collection is numbered 7349. Probably made for the same family - & one of a pair also from Scotland.'

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