25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A RARE ALGERIAN 18-BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
with three-stage barrel (old pitting) retained by a replacement engraved silver band at muzzle and chiselled with a design of symmetrical foliage along the breech, engraved tang, flat bevelled lock and cock inset with silver panels chased with foliage, steel chiselled en suite, figured hardwood full stock inlaid with engraved silver foliate cagework secured by pins and almost entirely enclosing numerous drop-shaped and circular pieces of red coral (corallium rubrum), silver mounts comprising spurred faceted pommel lightly engraved with foliage and with rounded cap chased with foliage, trigger-guard with foliate finials and reeded bow, turned faceted ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod, 37.0 cm barrel
Sold for £4,500
with three-stage barrel (old pitting) retained by a replacement engraved silver band at muzzle and chiselled with a design of symmetrical foliage along the breech, engraved tang, flat bevelled lock and cock inset with silver panels chased with foliage, steel chiselled en suite, figured hardwood full stock inlaid with engraved silver foliate cagework secured by pins and almost entirely enclosing numerous drop-shaped and circular pieces of red coral (corallium rubrum), silver mounts comprising spurred faceted pommel lightly engraved with foliage and with rounded cap chased with foliage, trigger-guard with foliate finials and reeded bow, turned faceted ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod, 37.0 cm barrel
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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