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A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Percussion Officer's PistolsBy C. Moore, 77 St. James's Street, London, Circa 1840
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,640 inc. premium
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By C. Moore, 77 St. James's Street, London, Circa 1840
By C. Moore, 77 St. James's Street, London, Circa 1840
With russet twist octagonal sighted barrels, each signed in full along the top flat and retaining most of their original browning along the bottom flats, foliate scroll engraved tangs and characteristically shaped signed border engraved locks, safety-catches, foliate scroll engraved hammers, figured full stocks (some bruising) numbered '678' and '679' respectively and with chequered butts and flat ovoidal pommels, foliate scroll engraved trigger-guards, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, vacant shield-shaped silver escutcheons, and stirrup ramrods (some surface rust): in later brass-mounted relined and refitted mahogany case with brass-mounted G. & J.W. Hawksley powder-flask and iron bullet mould, the exterior of the lid with vacant shield-shaped brass escutcheon within brass stringing, London proof marks
14 cm. barrels
14 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Charles 2 Moore was at 77 St. James's Street between 1825-42








