A CASED IRISH 80-BORE TURN-OVER BOXLOCK PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL

BY WM. & JN. RIGBY, DUBLIN, SERIAL NO. 9792 FOR 1847

Details

A CASED IRISH 80-BORE TURN-OVER BOXLOCK PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL
BY WM. & JN. RIGBY, DUBLIN, SERIAL NO. 9792 FOR 1847
With turn-off barrels each engraved with a band at the muzzle, border and scroll engraved breeches and signed triple-bent action, folding trigger, chequered figured walnut butt with small silver butt-cap, and silver escutcheon engraved with the initials 'MW', in original fitted mahogany case lined with green baize with fine Dixon brass-mounted copper three-way pistol-flask and original combined barrel-key nipple-wrench, the exterior with shaped brass escutcheon (some discolouration to pistol, one action screw replaced, key escutcheon missing from case)
1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) barrels

Literature

D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, p. 115.

Lot Essay

Back notes that although 9792 and 9793 were made as a pair they were subsequently sold separately, 9792 to Winter and 9793 to A. Ormsby at a cost of £5. 5. 0. each. The initials 'MW' on the escutcheon relate to the original purchaser, the vendor's great, great grand father.

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