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Lot 339Y

A Fine Cased Pair Of 22-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By Ross, Edinburgh, No. 574 And 575, Circa 1835

27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 22-Bore Percussion Target Or Duelling Pistols
By Ross, Edinburgh, No. 574 And 575, Circa 1835

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in gothic script along the top flat at the breech, border engraved case-hardened breeches each with blued back-sight, platinum line and platinum plug, foliate engraved case-hardened tangs each with a tiger-mask on the flat, signed border engraved case-hardened detented locks each decorated with foliage terminating in a monster-head, the internal working parts retaining their brightly burnished finish, dolphin hammers en suite with the locks, safety-catches, lacquered highly figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, border engraved blued steel trigger-guards each engraved with foliage terminating in monster-heads on the bow and with serial numbered tangs, case-hardened trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, blued rear ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheons, dark horn fore-end caps, original horn-tipped ramrods, and in fine condition retaining virtually all their original finish: in original fitted case lined in burgundy velvet with accessories including Dixon & Sons three-way powder-flask retaining nearly all its original lacquered finish, ivory-handled turnscrew and nipple-key, case-hardened mainspring-clamp, bullet mould, oil bottle and ramrod, the exterior of the lid with large vacant circular brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
24.5 cm. barrels

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The maker is almost certainly Daniel Ross recorded in Edinburgh between 1815 and 1839

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