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A Liège 32-Bore Percussion PistolMid-19th Century
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £336 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Liège 32-Bore Percussion Pistol
Mid-19th Century
Mid-19th Century
With octagonal sighted barrel of unusual twist damascus pattern and rifled with sixteen grooves, sparsely engraved breech, foliate scroll engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, border engraved back-action lock and hammer en suite, figured half-stock carved with overlapping scales on the butt and with a border of foliage around the ovoidal pommel, white-metal mounts comprising butt-trap with hinged cover formed as a scallop shell, trigger-guard engraved with scrolling foliage, foliate engraved fore-end cap, vacant white-metal escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrod, possibly original, Liège proof
15.2 cm. barrel
15.2 cm. barrel








