Attractive Unwin & Rogers Knife Pistol
Sale 2030 - Arms, Armor and Militaria
Oct 23, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$2,500 -
$3,500
Lot Description
Attractive Unwin & Rogers Knife Pistol
.26 caliber. 3.62" tapered octagonal barrel. NSN. 3.5" single-edged spear point blade with prominent median ridge, 2.5" single-edged secondary blade. Gun metal barrel finish, German silver bolsters and furniture, iron hammer and trigger, horn grip with smooth side and checkered grip area. Single action single shot smoothbore combination percussion knife pistol with manually deployed folding trigger. Both knife ricassos marked UNWIN &/ROGERS/SHEFFIELD in three lines. Barrel with post-1813 Birmingham commercial proofs on the left angled flat. The gun metal bullet mold and steel tweezers are still present in the butt of the gun, and the butt trap door to store balls is functional. A nice example of the combination knife pistol concept that was popularized by Unwin & Rogers in the 1840s and 1850s that is not missing the often lost mold and tweezers. Philip Unwin and James Rogers worked in Sheffield, Yorkshire circa 1827-1868.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition Report
Very good. Bore dark and oxidized. Barrel with a dull silvery gray patina. Blades with a dully oxidized gray patina and some lightly scattered pinpricking. Blades both full length and extend as they should. Pistol action is functional, with manually deploying trigger releasing the hammer as it should. Butt trap door hinge is slightly loose. Horn grip very good, although there is some moderate flattening to the checkering and some minor restoration on the left side where a crack and likely a chip were located.
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