A SCOTTISH STEEL AND SILVER FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL

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A SCOTTISH STEEL AND SILVER FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL
CIRCA 1750
By Alexander Campbell of Doune

With two stage barrel fluted at the breech and with flared octagonal muzzle, the belt hook with pierced tang, scroll butt with two silver oval escutcheons, one inscribed No.4, with silver trigger and detachable pricker, profusely engraved all-over with foliated scrolls, the lockplate inscribed Alexr. Campbell, complete with ramrod
length overall 12½in. (31.7cm)

出版

Whitelaw, Scottish Arms Makers, Page 42

拍品專文

This pistol is rather unusual as the inscribed No. 4 indicates that it was from a larger set of at least four pistols. For similar pistols by the same maker cf. The Swords and the Sorrows, National Trust, Culloden 1996, Nos 5..19. From a Private Collection and No. 5..20 from the collections of The National Trust for Scotland at Brodick Castle