◉ A RARE COMBINED 140 BORE IVORY-MOUNTED PERCUSSION... Lot n° 223

◉ A RARE COMBINED 140 BORE IVORY-MOUNTED PERCUSSION PISTOL AND CUTLERY SET, STIRLING, BURNLEY, CIRCA 1880 with blued octagonal sighted barrel signed within a scrollwork frame and engraved with further scrolls over the breech, engraved hammer and back-strap, gilt copper alloy fillets, a pair of ivory grip-scales on each side of the butt, the fore-end with a further ivory fillet on each side with folding knife and fork respectively, the latter fitted over the fore-end sides with a pair of key-hole slots acting on studs: in lined and fitted case veneered in rosewood, complete with bullet mould, powder-flask, ivory cap flask (cracked) and rammer with engraved separate head, 8.5 cm barrel Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 105. For other examples see Winant 1965, pp. 122-125. This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number SDT9CU7O.