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A Fine Pair Of Cased 32-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt PistolsBy Harvey, Exeter, Circa 1845
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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By Harvey, Exeter, Circa 1845
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
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




