Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

An Unusual Pair Of French 20-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pistols image 1
An Unusual Pair Of French 20-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pistols image 2
Lot 292*

An Unusual Pair Of French 20-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pistols
By LePage Moutier A Paris, Circa 1850

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,560 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

An Unusual Pair Of French 20-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pistols
By LePage Moutier A Paris, Circa 1850

With turn-off barrels each signed in full within an etched panel along the top, actions each incorporating a back-sight and deeply etched with foliage inhabited by a differing winged dragon on both sides, and with crowned owner's monogram behind the hammer, the hammers and folding triggers etched en suite with the actions, unusual slightly curved swelling ebony butts each flat along the top, bottom and sides, and butt-traps each with sprung pivoting cover etched with foliage (2)
7.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Louis-Michel LePage-Moutier was the son-in-law of Henri LePage and succeeded him in 1842. He died in 1868

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later

FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.