Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2018 : Sale A1218 Lot 460
COLLIS, OXFORD A RARE AND UNUSUAL 40-BORE THUMB-TRIGGER BOXLOCK POCKET-PISTOL, no visible serial number,

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COLLIS, OXFORD
A RARE AND UNUSUAL 40-BORE THUMB-TRIGGER BOXLOCK POCKET-PISTOL, no visible serial number,
circa 1790, with round slightly tapering 2 3/4in. iron barrel, rounded breech with private proofs, engraved squared boxlock action signed in a banner on the left hand side 'COLLIS', and 'OXFORD' in an oval on the right, no provision for a conventional trigger to the floorplate, central hammer with sliding safe operating around the sides and also locking the frizzen down over the rainproof pan, thumb operated push-catch trigger mounted to the top-tang behind the safe and slab-sided walnut butt with oval escutcheon to rear

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Estimate £400-600
(USD 518-777)
(EUR 444-666)


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