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ARMS AND ARMOUR FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOWARD RICKETTS
A RARE PRESENTATION QUALITY .44 HENRY RIMFIRE SMITH & WESSON MODEL 3 (TURKISH MODEL) SINGLE-ACTION REVOLVER, NO.697
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1873-78
细节
A RARE PRESENTATION QUALITY .44 HENRY RIMFIRE SMITH & WESSON MODEL 3 (TURKISH MODEL) SINGLE-ACTION REVOLVER, NO.697
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1873-78
7 inch round barrel with standard Smith & Wesson patent markings up to Aug.24.69, humpbacked grip-strap, spurred trigger-guard and grips of rounded contour, the grips faced with sheet silver decorated with pricked and roll-engraved foliage and border ornament, the left grip stamped in 1917 with British Cypriot firearms registration numbers, case-hardened hammer, the remaining major components richly overlaid with gold vegetal scrolls and star and crescent motifs on a blued ground, the overlay signed ‘work of ‘Izzat’ on the top of the barrel, in original soft leather holster and sold with four British Cypriot customs and firearms registration documents, 1917-1942
12 ½in. (31.8cm) long
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1873-78
7 inch round barrel with standard Smith & Wesson patent markings up to Aug.24.69, humpbacked grip-strap, spurred trigger-guard and grips of rounded contour, the grips faced with sheet silver decorated with pricked and roll-engraved foliage and border ornament, the left grip stamped in 1917 with British Cypriot firearms registration numbers, case-hardened hammer, the remaining major components richly overlaid with gold vegetal scrolls and star and crescent motifs on a blued ground, the overlay signed ‘work of ‘Izzat’ on the top of the barrel, in original soft leather holster and sold with four British Cypriot customs and firearms registration documents, 1917-1942
12 ½in. (31.8cm) long
来源
Imported to British Cyprus by [Barutçuzade] Ahmed Vassif Effendi (d.1919), 22 March 1917
Licensed to Mehmet Munir Bey of Nicosia, 31 August 1921
Sold to Arman Keshishian by the heir of Zehra Hanim Vassif Effendi
Deposited with the British Cypriot Police in compliance with Firearms Laws, 1933 to 1942, by Zabel Keshishian of Nicosia
Thence by descent until sold Christie’s South Kensington, 30 November 2009, lot 23
Licensed to Mehmet Munir Bey of Nicosia, 31 August 1921
Sold to Arman Keshishian by the heir of Zehra Hanim Vassif Effendi
Deposited with the British Cypriot Police in compliance with Firearms Laws, 1933 to 1942, by Zabel Keshishian of Nicosia
Thence by descent until sold Christie’s South Kensington, 30 November 2009, lot 23
刻印
Above the barrel, ‘work of ‘Izzat’
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Phoebe Jowett Smith
Sale Coordinator & Cataloguer