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EASTERN LOWLANDS, LATE 17TH CENTURY EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Details
An Exceptional 34-Bore Scottish All-Metal Flintlock Four-Shot Revolver
Eastern Lowlands, Late 17th Century Early 18th Century
With hand-rotated swamped barrel block bored from the solid, retained by a nut at the centre of the muzzles and revolving within a brass sleeve (cracked) at the rear, lightly engraved iron cock and steel, brass heart-shaped butt (minor bruising) with pierced globose brass finial, and later brass button trigger
8¼in. (21cm.)
Eastern Lowlands, Late 17th Century Early 18th Century
With hand-rotated swamped barrel block bored from the solid, retained by a nut at the centre of the muzzles and revolving within a brass sleeve (cracked) at the rear, lightly engraved iron cock and steel, brass heart-shaped butt (minor bruising) with pierced globose brass finial, and later brass button trigger
8¼in. (21cm.)
Literature
The Swords and the Sorrows, exhibition catalogue, cat. no. 5:18, p. 70 (illustrated)
This appears to be the only pistol of its type so far recorded
This appears to be the only pistol of its type so far recorded
Exhibited
The Swords and the Sorrows, Culloden Commemorative Exhibition, Culloden, 16 April-20 September 1996
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.