Antique Guns and Equipment
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19th Century British Form Pocket Pistol Size Plain Category Copper & Brass Black Powder Flask with Sprung Nozzle Charger Ideal For Pistol Boxes & Cases. MISC 2002 - MISC 2002 Decoration of black powder flasks varied dramatically with plain utilitarian examples and ornate examples with hunting, game animals, foliate, village, military and marine scenes & were made of a wide variety of materials. This pocket pistol size flask falls into the ‘Plain category’ described in the ‘Plain Flasks’ chapter (page 271) of, ‘The Powder Flask’ book by Riling. Similar small copper and brass plain flasks are illustrated at plates 125 of Riling’s book page 272 & 274. Riling states that these plain flasks “should receive special attention from the new collector and form an important part of any collection”. This flask ideal for pistol boxes & cases measures 4 ½” overall length and is just under 2” broad at its widest. The brass sprung charger works correctly and has a removable screw in nozzle. The copper has a few minor dents consistent with age and use but no cracks or splits. The price includes UK delivery. MISC 2002 (drawers office) £175.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (27/03) 19th Century British Sykes Patent (Sheffield) Pocket Pistol Size Plain Category Copper & Brass Black Powder Flask with Sprung Nozzle Charger Ideal For Pistol Boxes & Cases. MISC 2001 - MISC 2001 Decoration of black powder flasks varied dramatically with plain utilitarian examples and ornate examples with hunting, game animals, foliate, village, military and marine scenes & were made of a wide variety of materials. This pocket pistol size flask falls into the ‘Plain category’ described in the ‘Plain Flasks’ chapter (page 271) of, ‘The Powder Flask’ book by Riling. Similar small copper and brass plain flasks are illustrated at plates 125 of Riling’s book page 272 & 274 along with other forms from the period Sykes catalogue. Riling states that these plain flasks “should receive special attention from the new collector and form an important part of any collection”. This flask ideal for pistol boxes & cases measures 5” overall length and is 1 ¾” broad at its widest. The brass sprung charger works correctly and has a removable screw in nozzle. The brass top is stamped by the manufacturer ‘Sykes Patent’. The copper has a few minor dents consistent with age and use but no cracks or splits. The price includes UK delivery. MISC 2001 (drawers office) £0.00 |
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**10.520 Kg**Heavy Victorian Era 1” Bore Cast Iron Naval Type Signal / Early Firework Launching Mortar Cannon Marked ‘IM’(NB NOT FOR BALL). Sn 23300 - 23300 Victorian era iron signal mortars are small, heavy cast-iron device designed to launch signal flares or early fireworks, primarily for communication or celebration. In the 19th century, these "pyrotechnic mortars" were commonly used by the navy or merchant ships to signal other vessels or ports using bright flashes and loud reports. Our original example is in the typical short, squat mortar cannon form with a large 1” bore muzzle opening and has an open touch hole at the base for ignition (the bore is open all the way to the touch hole, illustrated). Made of heavy cast iron, our example is 10.520 Kg weight to withstand the pressure of gunpowder charges without needing complex recoil systems. These mortars were loaded with a small charge of gunpowder and a pyrotechnic "shell" or flare. When ignited, the device produced a loud "bang" and a bright white or coloured flash. The mortar with stubby cannon form barrel is just under 8” height and the base plate is 8 ¼” diameter. One side of the barrel has cast marking ‘IM’ (unknown worthy of further research). The muzzle has lost some metal from one edge during its lifetime. The Mortar is an antique signalling piece and not for ball. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 23300 (armoury floor near drawers) £245.00 |
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**SOLD*7/4**Early Production**1886 Winchester Model 1885 (Browning’s 1879 Patent) .32 Rim Fire Obsolete Calibre ‘Low Wall’ Lever Action Falling Block Single Shot Rifle With Octagonal Barrel. Sn 23339 - 23339 The Model 1885 Single Shot rifle was John M. Browning’s first design and patent, and it was the first single shot to be built by Winchester. The patent for the Model 1885 rifle was what brought John M. Browning and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company together for beginning of their eventual 19-year association. Two models of the Winchester Model 1885 falling-block action were produced, the Low Wall and the High Wall ( Low Wall which showed an exposed hammer and the so-called High Wall whose steel frame covered most of the firing hammer when viewed from the side). Winchester produced nearly 140,000 Single Shot rifles from 1885 to 1920, and it was found that the falling-block Model 1885 had been built with one of the strongest actions known at that time. This is a very good example of the Winchester Model 1885. It has a 26” heavy octagonal barrel (42 ½” overall). The top barrel flat is crisply signed with Winchester manufacturer detail (illustrated). The barrel's bore is clean & has well defined rifling. The barrel has calibre detail ‘.32 Cal RF’ and the action tang is numbered ‘3600’ which dates its manufacture to 1886. The tang also has John Browning’s patent date ‘Pat Oct 7th 79 (1879)’. The blued metal work has even aged patina. The wood work is all original and has just light bumps and bruises to be expected with age & use. It has a curved steel butt plate. The weapon has German silver blade fore sight & adjustable rear sight. Its loading, cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price for this obsolete calibre rifle includes UK delivery. NB As an obsolete calibre antique rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23339 £0.00 |
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**RARE UK OBSOLETE .25 RIM FIRE CALIBRE**1890-1904 Patent Marlin Firearms Co New Haven CT USA Model 27-S Pump / Slide Action Rifle. Sn 23338 - 23338 These Marlin USA slide action rifles were introduced in 1909 as the Model 27. The rifles were designed John Marlin and LL Hepburn. The model was re-designated as 27-S C1911. It was made up to WWI, and again after the war until 1932. This example is very good and chambered for the rare to find UK obsolete .25 Rim Fire calibre. The bore is clean with well defined rifling. The barrel is stamped with .25 RF’ calibre detail. It has a tube magazine, 23 ½” blued steel barrel (42” overall), all original wood stock and grooved wood slide. All wood and blued metalwork have even aged patina and no damage. The barrel is stamped with Marlin New Haven CT manufacturer detail and 1890 to 1904 patent detail (illustrated). It has a curved blued steel butt plate, an adjustable rear sight and blade fore sight. There is no visible external serial number. The action tang is stamped ‘Marlin 27-S’. & it cocks and dry fires crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an obsolete calibre, antique rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23338 £1,250.00 |
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**MINT BORE**English ‘Army & Navy CSL London’ (Co-Op Society Victoria St London SW) .360 No.5 or .380 Obsolete Centre Fire Calibre Breech Loading, Side Lever, Break Action Single Shot Rook / Rabbit Rifle With Octagonal Barrel. Sn 23337 - 23337 This is an excellent Rook / Rabbit rifle retailed by ‘Army & Navy CSL London’ (Co-Op Society Victoria St London SW). It has a blued 26” Octagonal rifled barrel. The bore is near mint clean and bright with well defined rifling. It has an external hammer, blade foresight, and 2 leaf graduated rear sight 50-1100 yards with silvered aiming lines. The barrel flats are signed ‘Army & Navy CSL London’ and have calibre detail ‘360 No.5 or .380’. The underside of the action is numbered 42198 and the trigger guard tang 9390. The rifle has excellent undamaged walnut stock with chequered pistol grip and chequered fore end. It has a steel butt plate and pistol grip cap. The loading and firing actions work crisply. The price for this excellent rifle includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre Rook / Rabbit rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23337 £1,275.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (06/04) **MINT BORE**Marlin Safety Model 1892 .32 Rim Fire Obsolete Calibre Lever Action ‘Take Down’ Rifle With Octagonal Barrel & Tube Magazine. Sn 23336 - 23336 This is an increasingly hard to find Marlin Model 1892 lever action ‘take down’ rifle in UK obsolete calibre .32 RF. It has all original undamaged woodwork. The metalwork has even aged patina to its all original blue finish which has aged to a nice plum colour in areas. The rifle’s action has a removable steel plate which can be removed to allow access to the actions working parts for inspection / cleaning. The plate is removed by unscrewing a screw bolt with knurled lug on the side of the action. The rifle cocks and dry fires crisply. Its 26” barrel has a near mint bore, clean & bright bore with well defined rifling (42 ½” overall length). The top of the barrel is marked with the Marlin Fire-Arms Co. New Haven address & patents for 1878- 1892. It has an external hammer & tube magazine. The top of the action is marked 'Marlin Safety'. The underside of the action is stamped with number '74246’. It has a curved steel butt plate, blade foresight & adjustable rear sight. The price for this excellent rifle includes UK delivery. NB As an obsolete calibre antique rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23336 £0.00 |
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**RARE**ALL MATCHING NUMBERS**Boer War Commando Issue, Austrian Steyr, Model 1885-86 (Cancelled Portuguese Contract), Guedes 'Falling Block' Action, 8x60mmR Guedes Obsolete Calibre Rifle With Boer Carved Stock. Sn 23335 - 23335 This is a rare, interesting Steyr made, M1885-86 'Guedes' Action 8x60mmR Guedes UK obsolete calibre Rifle. The Guedes was an indigenous design, unique to Portugal, developed by Portuguese Lieutenant (later General) Luis Guedes Dias. It was initially designed for an 11mm cartridge, the adoption of smokeless propellant in France and the quick adoption of small calibre cartridges across Europe during this period causing the design to be changed to 8mm before production began. 40,000 rifles were ordered to be manufactured by O.E.W.G (Steyr, in Austria) but the contract was cancelled. Portugal paid a cancellation fee and ownership of the rifles remained with O.E.W.G. In 1886 practically all of the rifles were sold to Transvaal and the Orange Free State and used extensively in the Boer War. Many such rifles were used by Z.A.R. forces (Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek, Dutch for South African Republic) against the British. The Guedes action was a creative, unique, dropping breech-block form in which the breech-block contains the trigger, hammer and mainspring. When the operating lever/trigger guard, hinged at the front of the trigger guard section, is lowered, it moves the breech block which is attached to it away from the breech and downward, cocking the hammer and ejecting the spent case in its downward stroke. There is nothing else quite like the Guedes. It is a unique rifle and easily distinguished once one has been seen. References in some books refer to the Guedes as a kind of Martini, but it is in no way, shape or form a Martini, having a dropping rather than pivoting block and internal hammer rather than firing pin. These rifles are sometimes referred to as "Portuguese Guedes" but the Portuguese only designed and ordered them, they never actually followed through on buying them. The rifles might be better called "Steyr Guedes" or even "Boer Guedes". The woodwork and metal work of this rifle are in very good undamaged condition with nice patina throughout and it has all matching numbers '3223' on stock, barrel, action and mechanism (the metal and wood of this rifle have some light small flecks of white paint no doubt a result of being displayed in an area being decorated at some point in its life). The action plates are stamped with a clear Steyr roundel containing 'O.E.W.G. initials M1885 and Steyr 1886' (also impressed on the shoulder stock) and the reverse with crisp roundel containing Portuguese Crest (all illustrated). The action works crisply and it has a clean bore with well defined deep cut rifling. It is complete with sling swivels, bayonet lug, cleaning rod, blade foresight and flip up rear sight. Interestingly this rifle’s stock has period stylised hand carved initials (illustrated) which is a common feature of Boer owned weapons as Commando’s would regularly carve their initials and other imagery such as religious iconography into the wood of their guns. The price for an opportunity to own one of these original, rare, Boer war rifles with carved stock includes UK delivery. NB. As an obsolete calibre antique weapon, no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23335 £1,675.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (31/03) French, Cased, Antique, Percussion .5” Bore Under Hammer Boot Pistol by D. Lissig à Suarz, Bullet Mould, Powder Flask & Rammer. Sn 23320 - 23320 This is a nice, cased percussion under hammer boot pistol signed D. Lissig à Suarz on top of the barrel contained with its accessories in a quality rosewood fitted case with a brass inlay of the head of Napoleon Bonaparte in the lid. This type of pistol is usually found on the American continent where it was popular from the 1830s and throughout the American Civil War. The 8 ¾ inch long pistol has a round .5 inch calibre 4 ½ inch barrel with the top flattened off with a bead foresight. The top of the barrel is engraved D. Lissig à Suarz. The tang is nicely engraved with foliate engraving and the trigger guard which doubles as a hammer is engraved with a sunburst. The pistol has a ring trigger protected by the hammer. The pistol has a mahogany uncapped flat butt stock with chequering to the grip. The pistol is contained in a quality rosewood fitted case containing a copper powder flask, iron double bullet mould with a sprue cutter, a wooden rammer/cleaning rod with brass tips, a tin of percussion caps and some lead balls. This type of pistol was very popular in early American history, being easy concealed in ones boot and is worthy of further research and could have been made for export to the America. The price includes UK delivery. N.B As an antique muzzle loading weapon no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 23320 £0.00 |
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**QUALITY**Victorian Cased Pair Of English Blanch London 16 Bore Percussion Pistols With Octagonal Damascus Steel Barrels & Original Accessories. Sn 23319 - 23319 This is a quality made pair of cased Gentleman’s percussion traveling pistols by Blanch London. They have 8 ¾” Damascus steel octagonal sighted barrels and captive steel ram rods, original undamaged walnut stocks with chequered panel grips and inlaid void metal escutcheons, ornately engraved foliate engraved trigger guards, Dolphin hammers & actions which have platinum lines at each breach. The top of each barrel is signed London. The action plates are also signed with what looks like ‘I Blanch’ but is most likely the English gunmaker John Blanch (1784–1848) apprenticed to Jackson Mortimer in 1800, he later worked for the renowned John Manton before starting his own business in 1809. John Blanch & Son operated from 29 Gracechurch Street for 89 years, between 1826 and 1915. Established in 1809, the firm is one of London’s oldest gunmakers and was an early innovator in breech-loading technology). The barrels smooth bores have just staining & residue consistent with age & use. Their cocking and firing actions are crisp. Each action has a sliding safety bolt which work as they should. The pistols are complete with their associated Mahogany case. The case has a hinged lid the centre of which is has a brass escutcheon. The case has its original lock (with key that works as it should). The inside of the case is lined with felt and has compartments for accessories and the pistols. Accessories consist of a copper and brass powder flask by ‘G&GWH’ with double compartments with hinged covers for balls / patches, steel ball mould, tool, cleaning rod with brass jag, a quantity of moulded lead balls & a Joyce London percussion cap tin containing a quantity of percussion caps (not tested) and a white metal oil container with screw top lid and integral applicator tool. The price for this superb pair of cased pistols includes UK delivery. NB as antique percussion weapons no licence is required to own these pistols in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23319 £3,950.00 |
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