Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:
29th July 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/129
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a WOM [p2 , Lv 108 l a oo Ah hie 109 10° q 110 18 Sheffield date letter for 1832, and made by Robert Gainford ; a small priming-flask, of papier-maché, enriched with a plaid design ; and two flasks for a sporting gun stocks, of walnut-wood, have butts of gun form, simply mounted with iron; the barrels, 184 am. long, partly hexagonal in section ; the locks-on the wheel and pyrites principle 17th Centwry—taceted walnut-wood stocks, with flattened hexagonal pommels; the stocks are enriched with lace- trigger-guards of similar workmanship; the barrels, 114 wm. long, partly octagonal and partly faceted in section, inscribed Lazari Cominaz; the locks on the wheel and pyrites principle, chiselled with simply moulded ornaments Parr oF Pistous—probably Flemish, late 17th Centwry— the stocks overlaid with tortoiseshell and mounted with engraved brass; the barrels, 204 im. long, with a ridged line of sight; the locks on the early flint and steel principle, engraved with monsters and foliage Parr OF DoUBLE-BARRELLED Pistons —probably Flemish, late 17th Century—the stocks are overlaid with tortoise- shell, with silver bands round the butts; the barrels, 165 wm. long, partly octagonal in section, placed one flint and steel principle, engraved with foliage Pair oF Pistous—ZItalvan, dated 1681—the stocks of walnut-wood, finely carved with terminal figures and scrollwork ; the barrels, 10 a. long, with flattened lines of sight, chiselled with dancing figures and etched with the aforesaid date; the locks, on the snaphaunce principle, are finely chiselled with grotesques and scrollwork, as are the remaining mounts of the pistols Paik oF Pistots—Ausirian, early 18th Centwry—the stocks of walnut-wood, carved with compositions of scrollwork, mounted with pommel caps, trigger guards, and ramrod sockets in brass, finely chased with allegorical figures and strapwork; the barrels—14 im. long—with flattened lines of sight, chiselled at the breech with figures of Cleopatra; the locks on the flint and steel principle, have their plates very finely chiselled with equestrian encounters and trophies of arms; they are inscribed ‘‘ STEINGASTINGER, A PRAG”’
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