Lot 195

SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK STEEL AND SILVER LOBE BUTT PISTOL
CIRCA 1770









Auction: 21 April 2010 from 10:00 BST
£1,500
Description
the three quarter stock and lock of traditional form with four stage barrel, silver leaf at the breech, with a raised silver inlaid line with flared octagonal muzzle, silver ball trigger, the stock with a blank silver escutcheon above an inlaid silver ribbon with a small gold blank oval, with the plain lobe shaped butt decorated with an inlaid silver wavy line around the circumference and a silver cap at the butt, with original belt hook steel ramrod turned and pierced
10in. (25cm) long, 17 bore








