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Lot 363*

A 40-Bore Percussion Rifled Over-And-Under Travelling Pistol
By J. Pratt, 28 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Circa 1855

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,912.50 inc. premium

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A 40-Bore Percussion Rifled Over-And-Under Travelling Pistol
By J. Pratt, 28 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, Circa 1855

With re-browned twist sighted barrels signed in full along the top flat and each with multi-groove rifling, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breeches, signed back-action locks and dolphin hammers, the latter each engaging with a blued safety-stop at the rear, pierced platinum plugs, figured butt with chequered rounded grip, steel mounts comprising ovoidal border engraved case-hardened butt-cap decorated with feathering centred on the retaining screw, blued border engraved trigger-guard decorated with foliate scrollwork, bright stirrup ramrod, and retaining most of its old refinished browning, case-hardening and blueing, Birmingham proof marks
19 cm. barrels

Footnotes

John Pratt is recorded at 28 Hanover Street, Edinburgh between 1853 and 1859

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