Firearms and Edged Weapons

A mid-19th century Belgian six-shot transitional revolver with sighted octagonal barrel, barrel length 12cm, foliate-engraved locks, hammer and frame and chequered carved wood plate grips (action defective).

An unusual late 18th/early 19th century flintlock blunderbuss pistol or dragon with flared steel barrel, barrel length 24cm, and shaped and line-engraved lock, full-stocked with steel furniture, pull-out wooden ramrod and sling mounts.

A Second World War period British Swift training rifle with applied manufacturer's plate, detailed 'The Swift Training Rifle 9B / 1588 Series A 694', with bolt action and trigger mount and spring loading, overall length 118cm (in working order).

A European flintlock musket, possibly German, with double brass-bound round steel barrel, barrel length 107cm, steel lock, marked 'I Sibley 10' with crowned 'AR', angular flash pan and hinged safety catch, full-stocked with brass furniture and brass-tipped wooden ramrod.

A scarce Albini-Braendlin model 1868 11mm Italian service rifle with round steel barrel, barrel length 95cm, adapted percussion breach loading action, rear ladder sight, steel furniture and pull-out steel ramrod.

A 19th century British Enfield pattern percussion musket with sighted round steel barrel, barrel length 99cm, rear ladder sight and line border-engraved lock, detailed '1856 Tower' with crowned 'VR', full-stocked with brass guard and buttplate and pull-out steel ramrod (later reduction to wooden fore-end).

A 19th century percussion sporting gun by Clark, with sighted part-octagonal and part-round steel barrel, barrel length 76cm, and foliate-engraved lock and hammer, full-stocked with steel trigger guard and butt plate and associated pull-out wooden ramrod.

An 18th century European crossbow with wrought steel bow and mechanism within a wooden body of gunstock form with chequered grip (distressed, old repairs).

A fine and scarce early 19th century percussion pistol by Thomas Potts, Haydon Square, London, with round barrel, barrel length 15cm, and shaped steel lock, detailed 'T. Potts', Haydon Square', full-stocked in walnut with brass furniture and pull-out swing-over captive-style ramrod.

An early 19th century percussion pistol with round barrel, barrel length 23cm, full-stocked in walnut with brass furniture (relic found condition, overall distressed).

An early 19th century percussion pistol with round barrel, barrel length 22.5cm, and line border-engraved lock with crown and Tower mark, full-stocked with brass furniture and pull-out steel ramrod.

An 18th century Continental flintlock pistol with decorated part-shaped and part-round barrel, barrel length 30cm, and finely engraved lock and hammer, full-stocked with carved and white metal-applied decoration (overall later repairs, damages, losses).

A late 18th century/early 19th century flintlock blunderbuss pistol or dragon by Ketland & Co, with brass-mounted part-octagonal and part-round steel barrel, barrel length 23cm, line border-engraved lock and brass flash pan, full-stocked with brass furniture and later associated steel ramrod (evidence of old restoration, some later repairs and alterations, some losses).

A rare pair of early 19th century percussion pocket pistols by Jover, London, with turn-off barrels, barrel length 7cm, box-shaped locks, engraved with trophies of arms, sliding safeties, shaped wooden grips and flick bayonets, activated by spring-loaded trigger guards.

A late 18th/early 19th century flintlock pistol with round brass barrel, barrel length 20cm, and steel lock with flower motif decoration, full-stocked with shaped squared grip and brass furniture (action defective, some losses to woodwork and pins, lacking ramrod).

A late 18th/early 19th century double-barrelled flintlock pistol with side-by-side damascened round barrels, barrel length 25cm, full-stocked with brass furniture, chip-carved grip and pull-out wooden ramrod (overall damage, restoration and losses, grip possibly later altered).

A mid to late 19th century six-shot percussion pepperbox pistol with revolving barrel, barrel length 6.5cm, foliate-decorated round-form lock and walnut plate grips (action part-working, defective overall, old rust cleaned back with pitting).

A late 18th/early 19th century flintlock pocket pistol by Burnett, Southampton, with turn-off barrel, barrel length 4.3cm, engraved round-form lock, decorated with trophies of arms, sliding safety, spring-loaded steel trigger and round-form wooden grip.

A late 18th/early 19th century flintlock pocket pistol by I. Mace, Reading, with turn-off barrel, barrel length 4cm, engraved box lock with stylized trophy of arms and square-form wooden grip.