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A Very Rare Pair Of 60-Bore Irish All-Steel Percussion Box-Lock Pistols Constructed To Form A Single D.B. Pistol

BY W.M & J.N RIGBY, DUBLIN, 1824

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A Very Rare Pair Of 60-Bore Irish All-Steel Percussion Box-Lock Pistols Constructed To Form A Single D.B. Pistol
By W.m & J.n Rigby, Dublin, 1824
With etched twist octagonal sighted barrels each engraved 'Dublin' on the top flat and struck with Dublin registration mark, pierced platinum plugs, nipples with blued cap-retaining springs, signed case-hardened actions each with three bents and characteristic engraving, blued flat-sided butts en suite and held together by a locking screw, blued triggers and guards, blued stirrup ramrods, and much original finish
7¾in. (19.7cm.)

Literature

D.H.L. Back, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, pp. 36-7, plates 12a-d

Exhibited

The Britsh Sporting Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, 14-30 January 1938, cat. no. 103
The Game Fair, Longleat House, 1962

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Originally supplied as one of two pairs on 22 September 1824 to James O.G. Mahon of New Park, Ennis

The only other example of this type of pistol was supplied to E. Bligh on 2 May 1826 at a cost of £21.0.0

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