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Lot 214*

A Rare Liège V-Spring Powder-Tester
Mid-19th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Liège V-Spring Powder-Tester
Mid-19th Century

Of bright steel, with a curved bar retained by a bolt, stamped with initials 'JC' on one side, and with threaded ring over the waisted anvil of the indicator bar for a percussion box-lock pistol (missing), the curved indicator bar numbered from '1' to '13' on each side and with sprung brass rider
15.5 cm. wide

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Literature
R.T.W. Kempers, Eprouvettes..., 1998, pp. 143-144, fig. 151, pl. 31

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