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A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling PistolsBy Collins, London, Circa 1850
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,750 inc. premium
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A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By Collins, London, Circa 1850
By Collins, London, Circa 1850
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed along the top flat, white-metal fore-sights, case-hardened breeches each engraved with foliage and with platinum lines, foliate engraved case-hardened tangs each with back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened locks decorated with foliage, the internal working parts retaining their brightly burnished and blued finish, dolphin hammers en suite with the locks, engraved safety-catches, lacquered figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, blued steel trigger-guards each with foliate engraved bow and pineapple finial, vacant white-metal escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons (barrel-bolts replaced), dark horn fore-end caps, brass-tipped ramrods (refinished during the pistols' working life): in original lined and fitted case with some accessories including reproduction three-way powder-flask covered in brown leather, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle on a shaped brass plate, Birmingham proof marks
18.5 cm. barrels
18.5 cm. barrels
Footnotes
James 2 Collins is recorded as 'Gun & Pistol Repository' (successor to Wilson's Gun Repository) and was at 12 Vigo Lane, Regent Street between 1825 and 1832. He was at 115 Regent Street between 1833 and 1854




