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A Pair Of Percussion Officer's Pistols Of Carbine BoreBy W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, London, Circa 1840
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,083.75 inc. premium
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By W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, London, Circa 1840
By W. Parker, Maker To His Majesty, Holborn, London, Circa 1840
With twist sighted barrels (light pitting) each signed in full along the sighting flat, engraved around the muzzle and retaining much original browning beneath, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breeches each with pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved tangs each with back-sight, signed border engraved flat locks decorated with foliage, dolphin hammers, engraved safety-catches, figured full stocks (minor old bruising) with chequered rounded butts, steel trigger-guards each decorated with foliage on the border engraved bow and with foliate finial, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrods (some rust patination), London proof marks (2)
19 cm. barrels
19 cm. barrels
Footnotes
William 3 Parker is recorded at 233 High Holborn from 1793 until the year of his death in 1841. He supplied arms to police offices from 1802 and to the Metropolitan Police from 1829








