Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour - 2nd December 2025
Lot 279
Richard Dyer: a pair of late 17th Century English silver-mounted flintlock holster pistols in
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £12065
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Description
Richard Dyer: a pair of English unmarked-silver-mounted flintlock holster pistols in holsters, late 17th or early 18th Century, 12.25 in. three-stage barrels, faceted breech sections engraved with foliate sprays and 'R. DYER' and struck with marks of a cross in a square, bevelled lock plates with a slight downward curve at the tails, plates engraved with scrolling foliage and 'DYER', swan-necked cocks engraved en suite, full-stocks with simulated burr finish, domed butt caps of unmarked-silver engraved with large roses to the centres and with dart borders, separate unmarked-silver grip spurs of scrolling form surmounted by imp masks, unmarked-silver side plates of scrolling openwork form, steel trigger guards, wooden ramrods in ringed and beaded pipes, London proof, circa 1690-1710; the holsters of heavy leather with iron wire-reinforced tops, the tops with large covers of embroidered cloth incorporating pockets, holsters likely contemporary.
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