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Lot 222

A Percussion Alarm
Mid-19th Century

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £375 inc. premium

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A Percussion Alarm
Mid-19th Century

With short barrel and back-action lock mounted on a rectangular steel plate pierced with two holes for attachment, the trigger-lever pierced with a hole for a trip-cord (some rust patination)
17.5 cm. wide

Footnotes

For a similar example described as a belt pistol see Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa, 1955, p. 152, pls. 170 and 171

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