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Lot 216*

A Rare Hand-Ignited V-Spring Powder-Tester
Signed Regnier's Powder Proof By Innes, Edin., Early 19th Century

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Hand-Ignited V-Spring Powder-Tester
Signed Regnier's Powder Proof By Innes, Edin., Early 19th Century

Similar to lot 214, the brass muzzle with integral pan, curved brass indicator bar signed along one side and numbered from '10' to '70' on the other, a leather rider on a thin bar of circular section above, and small suspension mount pierced with a circular hole (some scattered pitting)
17.5 cm. wide

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Provenance
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, The Herbert & Raymond Green Collection of Fine Antique Firearms, 24 August 1998, lot 2398

Edme Regnier (1751-1825) is credited with the invention of the V-spring powder-tester. See R.T.W. Kempers, Eprouvettes..., 1998, pp. 44-46, fig. 36

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