Continental Brass-Inlaid Flintlock Blunderbuss, 18th Century
The walnut stock extensively decorated with brass inlay throughout the butt and forestock, the barrel with decorative motifs to the top flat, iron lock and trigger guard, and flaring muzzle. A well-made and attractively embellished example retaining dark patina and period character.
Barrel length 12 3/8 inches, length 24 inches
Three rings, one diamond ring set with 14 diamonds surrounding a center diamond 4.8mm, approximately quarter carat ring cut, plus man’s 14k band and 10k diamond and blue stone ring, 16.2 grams total weight.
3 glazed pieces to include a white glazed porcelain bowl having incised decoration in center, a white crackled glazed 3 footed vessel and a crackle glazed 3 footed pot
Savage model 1907 pistol, marked Savage Arms Co. Utica, NY U.S.A., .32 caliber, p-atentend November 21, 1905, 7.65 mm, in original wood box with felt interior 231.
Three oil paintings Richard Stalter oil on canvas landscape 20 x 24, George L. Morris oil on masonite landscape 10 x 12, and Edward Cooper oil on masonite of dry dock 16 x 12.
Currier & Ives hand colored lithograph, Clipper Ship Great Republic, sight size 9 x 13 1/2. Provenance: Property from Credit Suisse’s Americana Collection
Two pine pieces including a pine two over two drawer chest and a pine three drawer table. chest: ht. 32in., wd. 45 1/2in. table: ht. 30in., top: 24 x 45
Two pine pieces including a pine two over two drawer chest and a pine three drawer table. chest: ht. 32in., wd. 45 1/2in. table: ht. 30in., top: 24 x 45
Six piece lot to include blue opaline dresser box, lighter, and cobalt ashtray with gilt trim and feet along with three various lighters. 3 3/4in. to 5in.
Five portrait paintings including oil on board of a soldier signed lower right V. Pratheroe 1895 a portrait of Lady Dorothea Eden, oil on tin marked Thomas Gainsborough on plaque a pastel bust of a woman signed illegibly lower right an oil on board Victorian portrait and an oil on canvas of a young boy, signed Foster. 9 x 6 to 14 x 20 Provenance: Estate of Arthur C. Pinto, MD