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Lot 346

An 80-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistol
Signed Van Wart & Co., London, Mid-19th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £336 inc. premium

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An 80-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistol
Signed Van Wart & Co., London, Mid-19th Century

With browned twist octagonal sighted turn-off barrel engraved around the muzzle and signed along the top flat, foliate engraved action and hammer, engraved thumbpiece safety-catch, folding trigger retaining traces of blueing, chequered highly figured rounded butt with white-metal lion-mask butt-cap, replacement belt-hook, vacant shield-shaped white-metal escutcheon, and some original finish, Birmingham, proof marks
8.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Henry Van Wart Son & Co. are recorded as General, American & West Indies merchants in Birmingham between 1835-82

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