AN EARLY 17TH CENTURY SCOTTISH BRASS LEMON BUTT PISTOL
MUNGO MOSMAN CIRCA 1620
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
with flared octagonal iron barrel mounted on a brass stock with engraved bands and borders, the octagonal pierced lemon butt similarly decorated, with left hand iron snaphaunce lock, signed MM, the hammer with ornate top jaw and screw, slim button trigger, ramrod missing
Dimensions
28cm (barrel), 42cm (overall)
Provenance
Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, Bonhams 27th July 2006, lot 481 (since when professionally restored)
Footnote
Literature: The Book of the Club of True Highlanders, plate XLVII by McIntyre North
Great British Gunmakers 1740 – 1790, Neal and Back, Plate 54C
Note: Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament