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Lot 452

A Fine Pair Of Cased 32-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistols
By Harvey, Exeter, Circa 1845

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of Cased 32-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistols
By Harvey, Exeter, Circa 1845

With browned twist sighted barrels each engraved with foliage around the muzzle and signed within the sighting groove along the top flat, grooved foliate engraved case-hardened breeches and actions, the latter each with chequered safety-catch and scroll engraved case-hardened hammer, blued foliate scroll engraved trigger-guards, chequered figured rounded butts, vacant silver escutcheons, blued belt hooks and under-ribs, stirrup ramrods each with tip engraved with a flowerhead, and retaining most of their original finish: in original lined and fitted oak case with some accessories including three-way flask, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with shaped vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
13 cm. barrels

Footnotes

William James Harvey is famous for his self-cocking hammerless percussion revolvers made incorporating his British Patent No. 2602 of 26 May 1853

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