Samuel Wallace: Gunmaker.

Samuel Wallace

Gunmaker

Dublin

1782-1798

SAMUEL WALLACE

A pair of silver-mounted flintlock duelling pistols by Samuel Wallace, Dublin. Browned twist sighted octagonal 11 inch barrels of 22 bore signed in gold on top flats, Wallace – Dublin, with engraved tangs and breeches, gold vents, crowned P & V proof marks and makers SW mark. The stepped locks are engraved at the tail and signed Wallace, fitted with set triggers and sliding safeties, swan necked cocks and semi-waterproof pans. The full length walnut stocks are mounted in silver with full Irish hallmarks for 1788 and the maker’s mark of Thomas Jones. These comprise trigger guards with acorn finials and applied spurs, butt caps with engraved decoration en-suite, urn shaped Adam style side-plates and barrel bolt escutcheons, plain ramrod pipes and oval thumb pieces engraved with a crest comprising a flaming torch or brazier and the initial “T”. The pistols are fitted with whalebone ramrods with ivory thimbles and worms.

NB These pistols bear a strong resemblance to the pair by Rigby shown in Colour Plate 5 facing page 83 of John Atkinson’s book “Duelling Pistols”. The mounts are by the same maker, Thomas Jones, and are date marked for the same year. The interior decoration of the locks is engraved in the same fashion and (I think) bear the same lockmakers’s mark.

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Our sincere thanks to the owner of the above superb pair of Wallace

duelling pistols and the detailed description.

Samuel Wallace trades directory entry for 1790.

Blackwell	William		2 Gt Ship St
Clarke	Nicholas		43 Capel St
Devine	Thomas		194 Abbey St.
Dixon	Thomas		32 Upp' Kevin St
Eames	James		57 s. King St
Edwards	William		Palace St
Gray	John		21 Lwr Exchange St
Hutchinson	Michael		8 Dame St
Marshal	Thomas		4 Barrack St
Morton	William		28 Castle St
Muley	Daniel		44 Gt Ship St
Powell	Benjamin		159 Abbey St
Rainsford	James		102 Grafton St
Rigby	John		19 Suffolk St
Tomlinson	Robert		123 Capel St
Trulock	Thomas		12 Barrack St
Wallace	Samuel		22 Eustace St

Additional information relating to this gunmaker please refer to our blog: 7/10/2015. 

Samuel Wallace originally listed by M.S. Dudley Westropp, MRIA. 

Journal Arms & Armour Society, 1957.

Vol.11. No 1.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk