Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2016 : Sale A0316 Lot 458
KETLAND & CO. A MOST UNUSUAL 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED DUELLING-PISTOL WITH SILVER MOUNTS, no visible serial number,

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KETLAND & CO.
A MOST UNUSUAL 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BRASS-BARRELLED DUELLING-PISTOL WITH SILVER MOUNTS, no visible serial number,
circa 1795, with slightly swamped octagonal 9 1/2in. barrel, applied fore-sight, plain iron top-tang, border carved step-tailed iron lockplate signed 'KETLAND & CO' in script forwards of the hammer, roller-bearing to the frizzen spring, walnut full-stock with slab-sided butt, silver roll-edged trigger-guard with acorn finial, unusual double-set trigger, silver shield-shaped vacant escutcheon to wrist and integral oval escutcheon below rear side-nail, silver ramrod thimbles and horn-tipped ramrod (frozen), loss to wood at left edge of fore-end tip

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Estimate £500-700