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A Scottish 28-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Belt Pistol
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A Scottish 28-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Belt Pistol By T. Murdoch, Late 18th Century With three-stage brass barrel slightly flared at the muzzle and engraved with symmetrical designs of foliage, notched back-sight, signed flat brass lock with horizontal sear and decorated with scrolling foliage at the rear, brass three-quarter with rounded butt stock engraved with further designs of symmetrical foliage, brass button-trigger, plain iron belt-hook, and iron ramrod with pierced baluster tip 13.6 cm. barrel Footnotes: Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 November 2018, lot 531; and for a very similar pair of pistols by the same maker and formerly in the Dr. H.S. Sloane Collection of Glasgow see Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 10 July 1985, lot 192 Thomas Murdoch is recorded as baptised in Doune in 1735 and married there in 1766. He evidently left Doune when the pistol industry began to decline and came to Edinburgh where he is recorded at various addresses in Leith between 1774 and 1790. For more information Charles E. Whitelaw, Scottish Arms Makers..., 1977, pp. 43 and 154 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Scottish 28-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Belt Pistol By T. Murdoch, Late 18th Century With three-stage brass barrel slightly flared at the muzzle and engraved with symmetrical designs of foliage, notched back-sight, signed flat brass lock with horizontal sear and decorated with scrolling foliage at the rear, brass three-quarter with rounded butt stock engraved with further designs of symmetrical foliage, brass button-trigger, plain iron belt-hook, and iron ramrod with pierced baluster tip 13.6 cm. barrel Footnotes: Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 November 2018, lot 531; and for a very similar pair of pistols by the same maker and formerly in the Dr. H.S. Sloane Collection of Glasgow see Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 10 July 1985, lot 192 Thomas Murdoch is recorded as baptised in Doune in 1735 and married there in 1766. He evidently left Doune when the pistol industry began to decline and came to Edinburgh where he is recorded at various addresses in Leith between 1774 and 1790. For more information Charles E. Whitelaw, Scottish Arms Makers..., 1977, pp. 43 and 154 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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