AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK ALL METAL SCROLL BUTT BELT PISTOL, ‡
BY DANIEL WALKER OF DUMBARTON
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
signed to lock ‘D WALKER’, the all-metal stock with engraved geometric and scrolling decoration the grips with oval cartouche above rams butt, with later conversion to percussion, with simple compressed ball trigger (lower section missing) and matching pricker present, missing cap, the four-stage brass barrel with reeded and engraved sections, with simple ramrod pipe, with simple pierced and engraved belt hook
Dimensions
21cm long (barrel), 31cm long (overall length)
Provenance
The John Kirk Collection
Footnote
Daniel Walker, sometimes called Donald, of Dumbarton was admitted as a burgess by right of his apprenticeship served under James Houston, also of Dumbarton. He is working as early as 1719. His son, John, is also admitted as a burgess of Dumbarton in 1747 but it is not recorded what trade he practiced; it would not be uncommon for him to follow in his father as a gunsmith.
Note: Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament