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Originally Posted by Merry
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How amazing, Merry.
In 2020, OH's second cousin bought the following:
A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Travelling Pistols
By C. Lamb, Whitby, Circa 1825
With octagonal sighted barrels each signed along the top flat and with platinum-lined touch-hole, border engraved tangs engraved with foliate scrolls, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and with foliage at the tail, foliate engraved cocks, safety-catches and rollers, figured full stocks each with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, the latter with white-metal lion-mask butt-cap, white-metal trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, vacant white-metal escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and in fine untouched condition, Birmingham proof marks (2)
10.2 cm. barrels
For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Provenance
Charles Lamb is recorded at Axtergate (Baxtergate), Whitby, Yorkshire in 1827
He paid £3,812.
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25976/lot/325/