BY W.. & J.. RIGBY, DUBLIN, NO. 10899 FOR 1858

Details

A Unusual 70-Bore Irish Percussion Box-Lock Turn-Over Pistol
By W.^. & J.^. Rigby, Dublin, No. 10899 for 1858
With blued octagonal sighted barrels each engraved at the breech with scrollwork on a hatched ground, blued nipples, signed case-hardened action engraved en suite, later(?) off-set hammer en suite, three bents, off-set blued folding trigger, flattened chequered figured walnut butt with engraved blued hinged cover revealing cavities for balls and caps, silver escutcheon, stirrup ramrod, and much original finish (barrels with some flaking)
6¼in. (15.8cm.)

Literature

D.H.L. Back, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, p. 144

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Originally supplied to the Hon. R.E. King
Cf. a very similar pistol retaining its leather wallet and accessories sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 8 November 1995, lot 193 (illustrated in D.H.L. Back, op. cit., plates 47 a, b), and a cased pair with bayonets (ibid., plate 48)

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