Product Details
A FINE 16-BORE PERCUSSION MAN-STOPPER PISTOL WITH PATENT MAGAZINE BY W. & J. RIGBY, DUBLIN, serial no. 9080,
for 1843 and bearing Irish Registration No. DU6467 for the same year, with etched damascus 4in. barrel, sunken sighting groove with bead fore-sight and signed 'DUBLIN', colour hardened breech-block with twin platinum lines and blued fully engraved top-tang joining in turn to a borderline engraved hinged blued backstrap concealing provision for balls and charges, moulded snail with platinum vented plug, border and scroll engraved colour hardened lock (colour darkened) signed 'W. & I. RIGBY', engraved dolphin hammer, walnut full-stock with chequered bag-shaped butt, white metal butt-cap escutcheon, blued and engraved trigger guard bow, finial and captive stirrup ramrod, the whole retaining much original finish
Provenance: According to the records found in D.H.L. Back's book 'Great Irish Gunmakers, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869', pistol number 9080 was originally one of a pair along with number 9081 made for a Rev. Taylor in 1843 and described as 'Pair of magazine pistols with swivel ramrods'. It also notes that the locks are secured by a screw on the lock side and are signed 'W. & I. Rigby'. The barrels are engraved 'Dublin' and are stamped '6466' and '6467' under the Registration of Firearms Act 1843.
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Estimate £1,000-2,000