AN UNUSUAL IRISH 44-BORE TURN-OVER PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK BELT PISTOL

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AN UNUSUAL IRISH 44-BORE TURN-OVER PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK BELT PISTOL

BY WM. & JN. RIGBY, DUBLIN, NO. 10045 FOR 1848

With blued octagonal sighted barrels each engraved with scrolls at the breech, one signed 'Wm. & Jn. Rigby', and the other 'Dublin', signed case-hardened action engraved with characteristic scrollwork, off-set hammers en suite, blued belt hook and folding trigger, chequered flattened figured walnut butt with cavaties for balls and hinged engraved blued iron cover, silver escutcheon, stirrup ramrod, and much original finish with some flaking on the barrels: in its leather wallet with accessories including three-way flask
7½in.

Literature

D.H.L. Back, Messers Rigby 1760-1869, p. 120, plates 47a, b

Lot Essay

Originally supplied to R. Bayley

An old manuscript label reads 'Gift from Horlicks 1938. (sic) Exhibition'
The inscription on the label does not appear to refer to the 1938 British Sporting Exhibition as the pistol did not form part of the display of firearms lent by the late owner and Clifford Hellis. See footnote to lot 60

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