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An Exceptional Cased Pair Of Indian 28-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols With Silver Barrels And Lock-Plates Signed L. Col. Claude. Martin, Lucknow Arsenal, Circa 1785

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 56

An Exceptional Cased Pair Of Indian 28-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock Pistols With Silver Barrels And Lock-Plates Signed L. Col. Claude. Martin, Lucknow Arsenal, Circa 1785

Schätzpreis
0 £
Zuschlagspreis:
58.850 £
ca. 94.246 $
Beschreibung:

With fixed slightly swamped three-stage cannon barrels signed respectively 'L. Col. Claude. Martin' and 'Lucknow Arsenal' on the top flat of the breech and chased in low relief over most of their length with rocailles, flowers and foliage against a fish-roe ground retaining traces of gilding, and engraved on the central section with a martial trophy, shaped iron tangs cut with rocailles, flowers and foliage all on a gilt fish-roe ground, rounded locks engraved with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, retaining faint traces of gilding and with a martial trophy on each tail, and a central vacant cartouche, the pans each with raised lip, large engraved concealed silver safety-catches also locking the steels, engraved iron cocks and steels each chiselled in relief against a gilt fish-roe ground, the steels (one chipped) each with roller bearing on a steel-spring with small acorn finial, and engraved with a border of beadwork on a gilt ground around the pan-cover, moulded half-stocks of Indian hardwood inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads, and carved in relief with a shell behind each lock and side-plate and with shells, scrollwork and a trophy of arms at the barrel tang, all the carving heightened with silver, the back of each butt inlaid with a silver plaque engraved with a seated male figure in European attire below a turban, mounts in the French taste, cast and chased in relief with shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, all on a fish-roe ground retaining traces of gilding and comprising shaped solid side-plates, escutcheons involving swags centred on a sacred heart and surmounted by a basket of flowers, spurred pommels inhabited by birds and with Diana and Actaeon on each side, both in Classical costume and in a landscape, ovoidal pommel-caps each centred on an eagle, trigger-guards, shaped silver fore-end caps engraved with scrolls, single sliding iron ramrod-pipes also retaining the barrels, blued set triggers, blued trigger-plates, and original silver-tipped ramrods, one with iron worm and the other with pierced iron ferrule (one pistol with repaired butt and small chip behind the lock): in their English lined and fitted mahogany case (one corner chipped) with English silver-plated powder-flask, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting carrying handle with central escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'AR', his crest above 20.2 cm. barrels

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 56
Auktion:
Datum:
18.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

With fixed slightly swamped three-stage cannon barrels signed respectively 'L. Col. Claude. Martin' and 'Lucknow Arsenal' on the top flat of the breech and chased in low relief over most of their length with rocailles, flowers and foliage against a fish-roe ground retaining traces of gilding, and engraved on the central section with a martial trophy, shaped iron tangs cut with rocailles, flowers and foliage all on a gilt fish-roe ground, rounded locks engraved with scrollwork, flowers and foliage, retaining faint traces of gilding and with a martial trophy on each tail, and a central vacant cartouche, the pans each with raised lip, large engraved concealed silver safety-catches also locking the steels, engraved iron cocks and steels each chiselled in relief against a gilt fish-roe ground, the steels (one chipped) each with roller bearing on a steel-spring with small acorn finial, and engraved with a border of beadwork on a gilt ground around the pan-cover, moulded half-stocks of Indian hardwood inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and engraved silver flower-heads, and carved in relief with a shell behind each lock and side-plate and with shells, scrollwork and a trophy of arms at the barrel tang, all the carving heightened with silver, the back of each butt inlaid with a silver plaque engraved with a seated male figure in European attire below a turban, mounts in the French taste, cast and chased in relief with shells, scrolls, flowers and foliage, all on a fish-roe ground retaining traces of gilding and comprising shaped solid side-plates, escutcheons involving swags centred on a sacred heart and surmounted by a basket of flowers, spurred pommels inhabited by birds and with Diana and Actaeon on each side, both in Classical costume and in a landscape, ovoidal pommel-caps each centred on an eagle, trigger-guards, shaped silver fore-end caps engraved with scrolls, single sliding iron ramrod-pipes also retaining the barrels, blued set triggers, blued trigger-plates, and original silver-tipped ramrods, one with iron worm and the other with pierced iron ferrule (one pistol with repaired butt and small chip behind the lock): in their English lined and fitted mahogany case (one corner chipped) with English silver-plated powder-flask, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting carrying handle with central escutcheon engraved with owner's monogram 'AR', his crest above 20.2 cm. barrels

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 56
Auktion:
Datum:
18.04.2012
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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