28th Jun, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
348
An 18th Century Flintlock Officer's Pistol by Benjamin Brooke, London, the slightly swamped 22cm steel barrel faintly engraved with maker's name and with London proof marks, signed lock plate, walnut stock with ringed brass twin ramrod pipes, brass trigger guard with foliate finial, open foliate work brass side plate, vacant escutcheon, the spurred butt plate embossed with a grotesque mask, with brass tipped wood ramrod, 39cm
Sold for £450
Estimated at £350 - £450
Action works, holds at full and half cock. Bruising to stock with a patch repair to the left fore-end and a sliver of wood missing to the right side. Crack through the grip. Small dent to the butt plate.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 28th Jun, 2023
An interesting and varied sale including a Collection of Prussian and German Pickelhauben, and various pieces of Second World War British military headgear, cap badges, air weapons, antique firearms, and pistols. Highlights of the sale include a Rare First World War Tank Driver's Leather Helmet, a Mid-17th Century German Wheel-lock Sporting Gun, and a 19th Century Asmat "Ndambirkus" Ancestor Skull, New Guinea.
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