Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Every once in a while, I get a crazy lead on something I just have to follow up on. A couple of days ago, Alex, my weapons expert, called to tell me he's got something I'm going to love lined up across the pond. So I hopped on a plane and I'm here in London. Rick, meet the finders. Peters, the father, Rowley and Red also work with him much like I work with my father. And in fact, Peter and my father have been friends for about 40 years, So I've known this family a long time. From the looks of it, you definitely have some incredible stuff here. If you follow through into a back room, some of the rarest pieces we have no backroom. So that's where you keep the good stuff. You better stop fooling me, all right? The business is a family business which was started over 50 years ago by my father. Essentially, we deal in arms and armor from Roman and Greek times. Gone all the way through to the 19th century were excited when Alex called. We're very happy to see them. We certainly knew we had some pieces which might interest them. Oh, so this is where the real fancy stuff is that the pieces here have fascinating provenance, some of which is royal. One of the pieces I'd like to show you guys is this pair of pistols here by John Christie. That is some crazy work made in Scottish style Baio Scott, but made actually in his own private workshop in the Tower of London, George Third commissioned John Christie to come down from Scotland to make dress pistols and such, like for diplomatic gifts, you'd never fire anything like that. You know what? They were really designed? The fire they were designed to look good at in basically in formal wear. So they were completely functional. Sure, no maker would ever make a pair of pistols, you know, unless they were purely functional. Interestingly, they have a proof mark just here, which is actually the private Tower of London proof mark, which was mostly done for royal pieces. Okay, what are they made out of them? Assuming steel barrels, they're all steel. And then these air gilt brass stops Very unusual. Very, very rare. Have wonderful grotesque face on the on the bus with pistols in all of this. How is all of this work done? This is all real. Braved, chiseled on engraved. I pick one up. Yeah, sure. It makes you feel royal. Yeah, that's just amazing. In the style of these pistols is traditionally seen. Surely Scotsman's. You don't find all still pistols anywhere else. Really? In the world, that is pretty incredible. What's that one right there? The everyone. It's not ivory. No, that's staghorn. So this is made in 1600 it's made for the Saxon court in Germany. It's one of only a few that have ever come on to the art market. This is a walnut stock is inlaid with staghorn, and then the decoration is dogs and gross s faces chasing rabbits and so on, so that that's a wheel lock. This is a wheel look about 1600 date and Wheelock's typically are quite a bit bigger. They'll that's probably 1/2 scale so that the purpose of making it smaller was probably for a boy, really, for a boy. And check this thing out. It's beautiful. What's really interesting about the mechanism is you wind it. This is a tightly wound spring that starts once you let it go. It starts to spin and there's a little door here. That door opens up and create sparks. So the wheels spinning, the pirates touching down on it and all the sparks come up Which lights The prime in powder which fires the gun. Extremely complicated. It incredibly complicated. How many did you say? Three. Don't leave. Only three have ever come on to the old market. So how much is the wheel? Like? The well looks. £140,000. Okay, Um, I think I'll pass on this one, but comes for these. They're £100,000. £100,000? Yeah. They tickle the boxes. They have a great name. Great maker. Great condition on beautiful works of art. So you take £80,000 for him? Wouldn't take £80,000 but I would take £90,000. Would you take 85,000? It's like $105,000 American. I'll take £85,000. You have just bought you bother. I mean, they're fantastic. I'm thrilled. Well, thanks for bringing me here. They're absolutely amazing. Appreciate business. Thanks. Slow, right. I shouldn't be in here any longer. I might buy something else. I might want to stay there.
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