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Lot 321*

A Very Rare Irish Flintlock Four-Barrelled Box-Lock 'Duck's Foot' Belt Pistol
By McDermot, Dublin, circa 1810-20

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£6,000 - £8,000

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A Very Rare Irish Flintlock Four-Barrelled Box-Lock 'Duck's Foot' Belt Pistol
By McDermot, Dublin, circa 1810-20

With turn-off barrels numbered from '1' to '4', border engraved breeches numbered to correspond beneath, the top stamped 'R&W' and with four fleur-de-lys marks, border engraved box-lock action signed within an oval against a martial trophy on one side and fitted with a belt clip on the other, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch also locking the steel, ring-neck cock, trigger-guard engraved with a crossed bow and quiver, chequered rounded butt (old split on each side behind the action) with vacant oval silver cap, and vacant silver escutcheon, London proof marks
7.6 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Thomas Del Mar Ltd. In association with Sotheby's, London, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 2 December 2015, lot 216

A Farrell and a Henry McDermott are recorded working in Dublin, see Richard J. Garrett, Irish Gunmakers, 2008, pp. 35-36

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