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A 16-BORE FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOL, AND A 38-BORE IRISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL
THE FIRST SIGNED RICHARD NOYES, WARMINSTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE SECOND BY ROBERT MC CORMICK, BELFAST, NO. 55, DATED 1792
The first with rebrowned octagonal sighted barrel, engraved tang, signed engraved bevelled lock with roller (comb of cock and jaw screw pitted), figured walnut full stock, chequered butt, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, Birmingham proof marks; the second with octagonal sighted barrel numbered and dated beneath the breech, gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed engraved detented bevelled lock with safety-catch and gold-lined pan, walnut half-stock (fire damaged, fore-end and ramrod incomplete), chequered butt, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with urn finial, and shield-shaped silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and initials (trigger mechanism missing, iron parts pitted)
11½in. and 15 1/8in. (2)
THE FIRST SIGNED RICHARD NOYES, WARMINSTER, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE SECOND BY ROBERT MC CORMICK, BELFAST, NO. 55, DATED 1792
The first with rebrowned octagonal sighted barrel, engraved tang, signed engraved bevelled lock with roller (comb of cock and jaw screw pitted), figured walnut full stock, chequered butt, engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, original horn-tipped ramrod, and some original finish, Birmingham proof marks; the second with octagonal sighted barrel numbered and dated beneath the breech, gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tang, signed engraved detented bevelled lock with safety-catch and gold-lined pan, walnut half-stock (fire damaged, fore-end and ramrod incomplete), chequered butt, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard with urn finial, and shield-shaped silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and initials (trigger mechanism missing, iron parts pitted)
11½in. and 15 1/8in. (2)
Literature
The second pistol, W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, p. 122, plate 48 (bottom)