Lot 314Ф,Y
A Fine And Rare Cased Pair Of 18-Bore Forsyth Patent Sliding Primer Officer's PistolsBy Forsyth & Co. Patent Gun Makers, London, Nos. 1153 And 1154, Circa 1816
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £22,562.50 inc. premium
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A Fine And Rare Cased Pair Of 18-Bore Forsyth Patent Sliding Primer Officer's Pistols
By Forsyth & Co. Patent Gun Makers, London, Nos. 1153 And 1154, Circa 1816
By Forsyth & Co. Patent Gun Makers, London, Nos. 1153 And 1154, Circa 1816
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in full along the top flat, case-hardened patent breeches each with platinum line, border engraved case-hardened tangs each fitted with a back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened bevelled locks each with safety-catch and rounded stepped tail, signed domed first-model sliding primers each with two rollers under the carrier, figured full stocks, chequered rounded butts, border engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and nearly all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including two copper and brass powder-flasks, one of them cylindrical, two small ivory priming-flasks, and combination turnscrew/pricker and wrench for removing the primer-bars and primer tops, the interior of the lid with large illustrated trade label of the third design (for 1811-16), the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks
19 cm. barrels
19 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance
Greener Collection
W. Keith Neal Collection
Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 10 November 2005, lot 73
Literature:
Lewis Winant, Early Percussion Firearms..., 1959, p.29, pl.4
W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1969, pp. 8-9, 43, pls. 20, 21 and colour pl. 3
Idem, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1980, p. 106, pl. 363
D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, Forsyth & Co.: Patent Gunmakers, 1995, pp. 19-20, and 39-40, pls. 12, 13 and pp. 5
The small ivory priming-flasks can be removed for shipping purposes
