A Fine Irish Officers Flintlock Duelling Pistol by McDermott.
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17 ¼” overall, 11 ¾” sighted Damascus musket bore barrel, with gold line at breech, ‘McDermott Dublin’ on top flat, the tang decorated with a stand of arms, gold lined touch hole, border wheat ear engraved, lock signed ‘McDermott’, fully waterproof pan, swan neck cock. Half stocked with border engraved steel mounts, the spur trigger guard decorated with a stand of arms and pineapple final, silver fore-end, vacant silver escutcheon, the chequered wooden butt with silver butt cap engraved with a harp below a rising sun, horn tipped rammer with a worm.
Circa 1810
Pistol in good condition, some original finish.
Rising Sun above a Irish Harp may be a badge of The United Irishmen.
Farrell McDermott St Mary's Abbey 1795 – 1796, 2 Abbey Street 1797 – 1810, 1 Abbey Street 1811 – 1827.