Lot 446
A Group Of Reloading Tools For Percussion Rifles All 19th Century
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,530 inc. premium
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All 19th Century
All 19th Century
Comprising two brass bullet moulds and a mould for explosive heads, each hinged together with original cord bindings and leather-covered terminals, each numbered '4728' for a Purdey 26-bore percussion d.b. rifle (sold 19 June 1852), together with their serial numbered hollow-point tool with swelling wooden handle; two brass bullet moulds each with swelling wooden handle, one stamped 'Whitworth Manchester 62', 'F. 440 C470' and '530G', the other retaining its hollow-point tool with swelling wooden handle; another bullet mould with blued steel head and swelling handles, and detachable sprue-cutter en suite; a brass hollow-point tool stamped 'James Dixon & Sons' over '1144N 20', and with turned swelling wooden handle; two powder-measures each with wooden handle and sprung cut-off lever, calibrated for 4¼ and 3½ to 4½ Drams respectively, the former retaining much of its lacquered case-hardened finish; a case-hardened .450 combined case-crimping and decapping tool; a pot of '"The Motty" Rifle Paste.'; and a 20-bore nickel cartridge extracting tool stamped 'G. & J.W. Hawksley' (13)
Footnotes
Literature
The first items L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, 1996, p.164
