FINE CASED PAIR OF SCOTTISH 36-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS, BY INNES, EDINBURGH
CIRCA 1800
£6,048
Auction: Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian - 27th March 2024 at 10am
Description
with 9 inch heavy octagonal sighted barrels, the breech-blocks with platinum line and platinum lined touch-holes, the top-flat stamped ‘Innes Patent’ and signed 'Maker to his Majesty Edinr.', top-tangs engraved with martial trophies, vacant oval white metal escutcheons, flat border engraved lockplates signed 'Innes', sliding safes behind the floral scroll engraved hammers, rainproof pans, rollers to the frizzen-springs, walnut half-stocks with chequered bag-shaped butts, border and trophy engraved spurred square-backed trigger-guard with stylised pineapple finial, barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn tips to the fore-ends, and period ramrods; together with a period mahogany compartmented case relined in green baize, with a copper and brass two-way powder flask, brass ring handle to the lid, barrels 23cm long, overall 36cm long
Dimensions
case 46cm long, 8cm high, 23cm deep
Provenance
Penicuik House, Midlothian