A Rare Scottish 22-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Heart-Butt Belt Pistol
A Rare Scottish 22-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Heart-Butt Belt Pistol
Late 17th Century
With five-stage sighted barrel octagonal at the breech and at the flared muzzle, and formed with raised mouldings each overlaid with an engraved silver band (two incomplete, three replaced), inlaid in brass with a waved line on each side of the forward section, and with slotted ramp at the rear of the breech, rounded lock (perhaps adapted from snaphaunce) with engraved rounded cock, associated faceted steel, iron three-quarter stock decorated with pairs of incised lines, two raised silver-overlaid mouldings on the underside below the lock, and a further one at the top of the pommel, the trigger and later pricker each with bun-shaped head pierced with four circular holes, flattened linear engraved belt hook diagonally fluted at its centre, single diagonally slashed ramrod-pipe, and later ramrod with long turned tip (surface pitted overall)
30.4 cm barrel
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A Rare Scottish 22-Bore Flintlock All-Metal Heart-Butt Belt Pistol
Late 17th Century
With five-stage sighted barrel octagonal at the breech and at the flared muzzle, and formed with raised mouldings each overlaid with an engraved silver band (two incomplete, three replaced), inlaid in brass with a waved line on each side of the forward section, and with slotted ramp at the rear of the breech, rounded lock (perhaps adapted from snaphaunce) with engraved rounded cock, associated faceted steel, iron three-quarter stock decorated with pairs of incised lines, two raised silver-overlaid mouldings on the underside below the lock, and a further one at the top of the pommel, the trigger and later pricker each with bun-shaped head pierced with four circular holes, flattened linear engraved belt hook diagonally fluted at its centre, single diagonally slashed ramrod-pipe, and later ramrod with long turned tip (surface pitted overall)
30.4 cm barrel
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