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Lot 558*

A Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By W. Bond, 59 Lombard St., London, Circa 1835

28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Pocket Pistols
By W. Bond, 59 Lombard St., London, Circa 1835

With turn-off barrels, signed border engraved actions decorated with foliage, trigger-guards each engraved with a star on the bow, figured flat-sided butts, and most of their original case-hardened finish: in their lined and fitted oak case with accessories comprising case-hardened bullet mould and Sykes brass-mounted three-way powder-flask (cut-off spring incomplete), the interior of the lid with illustrated trade label of E. & W. Bond, 45 Cornhill, London, the exterior with vacant circular brass escutcheon, London proof marks
4.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

William Thomas 1 Bond is recorded at 59 Lombard Street between 1803-36. He was gunmaker to the Grocers Company in 1803 and following his death in 1836 the business was carried on by his widow Elizabeth

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