BY FARRELL MCDERMOT, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1815

Details

A Highly Unusual 26-Bore Irish D.B. Flintlock Box-Lock Coaching Carbine
By Farrell McDermot, Dublin, circa 1815
With rebrowned twist octagonal barrels with silver bead fore-sight, signed on the rib in Gothic script, and fitted with spring bayonet beneath, signed engraved action, the top plate with long tang engraved with flowers, foliage, and bird perched up a tree, integral rectangular pans each with raised border engaging with a panel on the underside of the pan-cover, engraved thumbpiece safety-catches, figured walnut butt (minor bruising), chequered grip, engraved iron mounts, and brass-tipped ramrod (some areas of rust staining and surface pitting)
29½in. (74.9cm.)

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

Lot Essay

The maker is recorded in Dublin between 1796 and 1827
A pair of Rigby double-barrelled flintlock box-lock pistols of this unusual construction is in an English private collection

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