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Lot 366Y

A Fine Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Rifled Target Or Duelling Pistols
By Ross & Co., Edinburgh, No. 813, Circa 1835

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £15,062.50 inc. premium

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Rifled Target Or Duelling Pistols
By Ross & Co., Edinburgh, No. 813, Circa 1835

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels (one with some surface patination) each signed in gothic script within scrolls along the top flat and rifled with ten grooves, foliate engraved case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with back-sight, platinum line and pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tangs, signed border engraved detented flat locks and dolphin hammers, the internal working parts retaining their brightly burnished finish, blued safety-catches, highly figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, border engraved steel mounts comprising case-hardened ovoidal butt-caps each engraved as a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, blued trigger-guards each with a foliated dragon on the bow, case-hardened trigger-plates each with foliate engraved pineapple-shaped finial, case-hardened fore-end caps each engraved with a pair of eyes and a starburst, blued adjustable set triggers, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, no provision for ramrods, and in fine condition retaining nearly all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including Sykes patent powder-flask retaining most of its original lacquered finish, case-hardened mainspring clamp, and steel bullet mould, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
23.7 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The maker is almost certainly Daniel Ross & Co. recorded at 9 South St. Andrews Street, Edinburgh between 1819 and 1839

For a similar pair of pistols by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms & Armour..., 27 November 2013, lot 339

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