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Lot 167Y

A Cased Pair Of Continental Working Miniature Percussion Box-Lock Pistols
Mid-19th Century

24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Pair Of Continental Working Miniature Percussion Box-Lock Pistols
Mid-19th Century

With turn-off barrels engraved with notch and line decoration, actions and tangs engraved with a trellised design and scrolling foliage, folding triggers en suite, rounded ivory butts, and in fine condition retaining all their dull grey and bright finish: in original ebonised wooden case (some splits) lined in navy blue velvet with full accessories comprising combined bullet mould, nipple-key and barrel-key, turned ivory powder-flask and turned circular bullet box, the interior of the lid lined in dark blue leather stamped in gilt letters 'Le Page à Paris Arquebusier Du Roi et Des Princes' within a border of stamped and gilt foliage, the exterior with vacant brass escutcheon within brass stringing
4.3 cm.

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For a similar example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 6 April 2006, lot 275

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