Lot 501
A Fine And Rare Cased 25-Bore Percussion Over-And-Under Travelling Or Howdah PistolBy Sam.L & C. Smith, London, Circa 1840
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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By Sam.L & C. Smith, London, Circa 1840
By Sam.L & C. Smith, London, Circa 1840
With blued tapering flat-sided barrels made in a single block of octagonal section and engraved on each side with scrolling foliage, signed sighted top flat engraved with foliage between the nipples, nipple-bolsters each with small platinum plug, blued border engraved tang decorated with foliate scrollwork and with a starburst behind the back-sight, blued lower tang engraved en suite, signed case-hardened border engraved back-action locks each with blued safety-catch, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened hammers each with blued detachable nose for Imperial caps, chequered finely figured rounded butt with rounded pommel, blued border engraved trigger-guard decorated with scrolling foliage, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, blued under-rib and stirrup ramrod, and retaining most of its original finish (barrel-block and trigger-guard with some flaking): in original lined and fitted oak case with accessories including Sykes patent cylindrical brass-mounted powder-flask in fine condition, steel bullet mould, nipple-wrenches each with flattened figured handle, and bags of lead balls, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with brass escutcheon and flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks
18 cm. barrel-block
18 cm. barrel-block
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, Fine Antique Arms, Armour And Collectors Firearms, 17 December 2013, lot 82
The crest is that of the Earls of Liverpool (extinct 1851), almost certainly for Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool (1784-1851)
The unusual form of the butt in believed to be intended for shooting down from an elephant howdah
