Lot 248
248
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE PAIR OF FOUR-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK TAP-ACTION PISTOLS with brass turn-off barrels numbered from 5 to 8 at the breeches and each stamped with Co. Down census number, brass actions engraved on both sides with a trophy of arms, pierced cocks (top jaws and screws replaced), foliate engraved tangs, sliding foliate engraved iron trigger-guard safety-catches, swelling walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and flower-heads, silver escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and silver lion and rampart butt-caps, by D. Egg, London, London proof marks, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1782, maker's mark IB

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A RARE PAIR OF FOUR-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK TAP-ACTION PISTOLS with brass turn-off barrels numbered from 5 to 8 at the breeches and each stamped with Co. Down census number, brass actions engraved on both sides with a trophy of arms, pierced cocks (top jaws and screws replaced), foliate engraved tangs, sliding foliate engraved iron trigger-guard safety-catches, swelling walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and flower-heads, silver escutcheons engraved with owner's crest, and silver lion and rampart butt-caps, by D. Egg, London, London proof marks, Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1782, maker's mark IB
11½in. (3)
Provenance
W.G. Renwick, Sotheby & Co., 22 December, 1960, lot 162

Lot Essay

The crest is that of Arthur Chichester, 5th Earl of Donegal (1739-1799) created Marquis of Donegal in 1791, and described by Horace Walpole as a "very weak creature"

By tradition used by Lord Hill, better known as General Hill of the Penninsular War Campaigns, who, on his death left them to his valet, Calderwood

Sold with Sidney (The Rev. R.E.): The Life of Lord Hill, G.C.B.

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