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A Fine And Rare Cased 90-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Pocket Pistol image 1
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Lot 358

A Fine And Rare Cased 90-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Pocket Pistol
By Joseph Egg Of London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1814

Fine Antique Arms & Armour Including An Important Group Of British Firearms
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £13,812.50 inc. premium

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A Fine And Rare Cased 90-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Pocket Pistol
By Joseph Egg Of London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1814

With blued octagonal barrels each signed in gold along the top flat, gold fore-sight, border engraved breech with platinum line, platinum-lined touch-holes, blued border engraved tang inlaid with engraved gold martial trophies, signed border engraved case-hardened locks each decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and decorated with foliage at the tail, foliate engraved 'French' cocks and steels (one an old replacement and fractured) each working on a blued external mainspring (one with some loss of finish) with roller, chequered figured rounded butt, border engraved mounts comprising pommel decorated with foliage on each spur and with a foliate border around the gilt butt-cap, the latter engraved with owner's crest and motto, D-shaped trigger-guard decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the bow, gold escutcheon engraved with monogram 'GB', steel ramrod with characteristically chequered tip, and retaining some of its original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including original brass-mounted four-way powder-flask covered in red leather, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with brass escutcheon incorporating a flush-fitting carrying handle
6.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Major Noel Corry Collection
Christie's London, Important Firearms, Side Arms, Arms and Armour, 22 November 1965, lot 152

Joseph Egg was at 1 Piccadilly (corner of Piccadilly and Haymarket) from 1814 to 1834. See Claude Blair, 'The Egg Family, Part 1 and Part 1 (contd.)', J.A.A.S., vol. VII (1973), pp. 266-299 and 306-353

Cf. two other examples sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2011, lot 401, and Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2016, lot 354

The arms are those of Francis Maude (1768-1842) of Hatfield Hall, Wakefield. He was a barrister-at-law and recorder at Doncaster

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