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Lot 283Y
A Cased Pair Of French 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistols By LePage Moutier A Paris, Circa 1860
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £8,187.50 inc. premium
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By LePage Moutier A Paris, Circa 1860
By LePage Moutier A Paris, Circa 1860
With reblued fluted sighted barrels each with octagonal muzzle and part octagonal breech encrusted with designs of silver foliage within gold line borders, the breeches each signed in gold gothic script along the top flat, and rifled with ten grooves, the breeches numbered '1' and '2' in gold respectively, tangs, detented locks and mounts all decorated en suite, the latter comprising spur trigger-guards and reblued rounded segmented pommels each with button terminal, ebony half-stocks each carved in relief with symmetrical foliage against finely punched grounds on the fore-end and rounded grip, and no provision for ramrods: in original figured wooden case fitted and lined in green velvet with full accessories including bullet mould engraved en suite with the pistols, and powder-flask with shaped copper body pressed around the outer edges on both sides 'Le Page A Paris', the exterior of the lid with shaped vacant brass escutcheon
24 cm. barrels
24 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Cf. a related cased pair of pistols by Houllier Blanchard, Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour, 15 July 1998, lot 203








