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An Unwin & Rodgers Percussion Knife-Pistol Of Small Bore
The Blades Stamped Unwin & Rodgers, Sheffield, Mid-19th Century

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unwin & Rodgers Percussion Knife-Pistol Of Small Bore
The Blades Stamped Unwin & Rodgers, Sheffield, Mid-19th Century

With white-metal octagonal sighted barrel (nipple replaced), two folding single-edged knife-blades (the larger slightly filed off), white-metal body with pinned rounded dark horn side-plates chequered at the butt, one with aperture (minor damage) for tweezers, the other with aperture for a white-metal bullet-mould, hinged butt-trap cover, and folding trigger, Birmingham proof marks
9 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For other examples see Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa, 1955, pp. 122-125, figs. 126-128

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