26th Jun, 2024 11:00

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 204
 

204

A SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOL, RIPOLL, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

with two-stage barrel, the forward portion formed with a central rib and moulded at the muzzle, fluted breech, engraved tang, iron patilla lock with file-fluted details, the steel signed ‘Svpoca’, full stock with near spherical butt, profusely applied with pierced and engraved iron scrollwork and plaques in the Ripoll style, the butt decorated en suite (losses), spurred iron trigger-guard, iron side-plate and iron fore-end cap (later ramrod), 19.5 cm

A closely related pistol is preserved in the Museo Ejercito, Madrid. See Lavin 1965, p. 251, illus 113a.

Sold for £5,000


 

with two-stage barrel, the forward portion formed with a central rib and moulded at the muzzle, fluted breech, engraved tang, iron patilla lock with file-fluted details, the steel signed ‘Svpoca’, full stock with near spherical butt, profusely applied with pierced and engraved iron scrollwork and plaques in the Ripoll style, the butt decorated en suite (losses), spurred iron trigger-guard, iron side-plate and iron fore-end cap (later ramrod), 19.5 cm

A closely related pistol is preserved in the Museo Ejercito, Madrid. See Lavin 1965, p. 251, illus 113a.

Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26th Jun, 2024

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AUCTION DAY: 26TH JUNE 2024, AT 11:00am

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