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A Pair Of German 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
By Ulbrich, Dresden, Mid-19th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of German 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
By Ulbrich, Dresden, Mid-19th Century

With re-blued unusually rifled octagonal sighted barrels with two gold lines around each muzzle and breech, top flats inlaid in gold script 'Canon d'acier anglais', breeches each with pierced platinum plug and chiselled with a gold eyed dolphin's head on the opposite side, foliate scroll engraved tangs each with adjustable back-sight and numbered '1' and '2' in silver respectively, border engraved back-action detented locks and side-plates signed in gold and decorated with foliate scrollwork, dolphin hammers and mounts en suite, the last comprising spur trigger-guards, trigger-plate finial and shaped butt-caps, the last each drawn-out to a flat diamond-shaped terminal, varnished figured half-stocks carved with foliage on each fore-end and with fluted butts, adjustable set triggers, and much original case-hardened finish (2)
21.4 cm. barrels

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