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CIRCA 1725
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AN ENGLISH COMBINED HUNTING HANGER AND FLINTLOCK PISTOL
Circa 1725
With curved fullered saw-backed blade double-edged towards the point, and with ricasso carrying on the left side a short turn-off cannon barrel and on the right side the pan, steel and steel-spring, iron oval shell-guard and knuckle-guard each decorated with baluster mouldings, domed iron pommel, and natural staghorn grip-scales slotted respectively above and below for the cock and trigger.
25¼in (64.2cm) blade
Circa 1725
With curved fullered saw-backed blade double-edged towards the point, and with ricasso carrying on the left side a short turn-off cannon barrel and on the right side the pan, steel and steel-spring, iron oval shell-guard and knuckle-guard each decorated with baluster mouldings, domed iron pommel, and natural staghorn grip-scales slotted respectively above and below for the cock and trigger.
25¼
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium
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Please note that the provenance for this lot is
J.F.R. Winsbury, Christie's, May 16, 1973, lot 199
Literature: Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, 1968, No. 727
J.F.R. Winsbury, Christie's, May 16, 1973, lot 199
Literature: Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, 1968, No. 727