Lot 650
A RARE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SCOTTISH LEFT-HANDED SNAPHAUNCE BELT PISTOL
DATED 1648
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 15 August 2018 at 11:00 BST
£10,000
Description
the all steel stock and with rams horn but and screw off pierced pricker and simple shaped ball trigger, with applied engraved brass lock plate engraved to pan '1648', with belt hook to reverse, the four stage barrel with fluted breech and facetted muzzle with reeded sections dividing
Dimensions
barrel 33cm long, overall 48cm long
Footnote
Notes:
for likely the same pistol see 'The Collector's Illustrated Guide to Firearms' Martin Miller Page 49