Lot 325
A Rare Scottish 25-Bore Flintlock Highland Regiment All-Steel Belt Pistol By John Christie Of Doune, Circa 1760
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,825 inc. premium
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By John Christie Of Doune, Circa 1760
By John Christie Of Doune, Circa 1760
With sighted barrel incised with lines behind the slightly flared muzzle, at the mid-section and at the breech, signed border engraved lock, plain stock with ram's horn butt, threaded pricker, button trigger, belt hook, and iron ramrod, possibly original
20.5 cm. barrel
20.5 cm. barrel
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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, lot 362
For a very similar pistol, by the same maker, see Anthony D. Darling, 'Weapons of the Highland Regiments', Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, Vol. 8, No. 3, August 1970, pp. 75-82