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19TH CENTURY
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A GARNITURE OF HIGHLAND DRESS ITEMS
19th Century
A pair of percussion Highland dress pistols, signed Wighton, Edinburgh, with scroll-engraved three-stage barrels, signed scroll-engraved case-hardened locks each with safety-catch (one hammer-retaining screw broken), silvered three-quarter stocks finely engraved with scrollwork, overlapping foliage, birds and stags, differing between the two, and engraved with a crest and motto, ram's horn butts (minor damage) each with detachable pricker formed of a silver-mounted cairngorm in the shape of a thistle, engraved silver ball triggers, blued iron belt hooks, original blued iron ramrods, and much of their original finish throughout; a dirk with fullered blade (minor rust spotting) and notched back-edge, staghorn hilt with silver mounts cast and chased with thistles in relief and set with two cairngorms, original leather scabbard with silver mounts, buckhorn handle and extra pieces en suite with the dirk, silver maker's mark AGW; a powder-horn with large hinged cairngorm-mounted silver cap en suite with the mounts of the dirk, and long nozzle (loose) also en suite and terminating in a cairngorm in the form of a thistle matching the prickers on the pistols, silvered chain for suspension, the body originally fitted with an applied plaque (now removed); and a plaid-brooch of silver formed as a slightly convex ring with scalloped border set with twelve cairngorms, silver maker's mark AGW
The pistols 10½in. (5)
19th Century
A pair of percussion Highland dress pistols, signed Wighton, Edinburgh, with scroll-engraved three-stage barrels, signed scroll-engraved case-hardened locks each with safety-catch (one hammer-retaining screw broken), silvered three-quarter stocks finely engraved with scrollwork, overlapping foliage, birds and stags, differing between the two, and engraved with a crest and motto, ram's horn butts (minor damage) each with detachable pricker formed of a silver-mounted cairngorm in the shape of a thistle, engraved silver ball triggers, blued iron belt hooks, original blued iron ramrods, and much of their original finish throughout; a dirk with fullered blade (minor rust spotting) and notched back-edge, staghorn hilt with silver mounts cast and chased with thistles in relief and set with two cairngorms, original leather scabbard with silver mounts, buckhorn handle and extra pieces en suite with the dirk, silver maker's mark AGW; a powder-horn with large hinged cairngorm-mounted silver cap en suite with the mounts of the dirk, and long nozzle (loose) also en suite and terminating in a cairngorm in the form of a thistle matching the prickers on the pistols, silvered chain for suspension, the body originally fitted with an applied plaque (now removed); and a plaid-brooch of silver formed as a slightly convex ring with scalloped border set with twelve cairngorms, silver maker's mark AGW
The pistols 10½in. (5)
Provenance
James Graham Galleries, New York, 1960
Literature
Russell Barnett Aitken 'The Investment You Can Hang on the Wall' True Magazine September 1963, p. 61 (illustrated)