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Lot 499

A Fine Pair Of 54-Bore Saw-Handled Target Pistols For 'Imperial' Caps
By Saml. & C. Smith, Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 4708 For 1834

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Pair Of 54-Bore Saw-Handled Target Pistols For 'Imperial' Caps
By Saml. & C. Smith, Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 4708 For 1834

With heavy browned damascus twist sighted barrels of thick-walled circular section and each signed in full along the top, case-hardened breeches each with four platinum lines and platinum plug, case-hardened foliate scroll engraved tangs each with blued back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened flat detented locks each decorated with scrolling foliage, hammers en suite and each with blued striker-nose, safety-catches, varnished highly figured half-stocks each with chequered rounded semi-saw-handled butt, flat ovoidal pommels each set with a silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest, a Baron's coronet above, blued spur trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the serial numbered bow, case-hardened trigger-plates each with foliate engraved pineapple-shaped finial, blued set triggers, no provision for ramrods, and nearly all their original finish (2)
23.5 cm. barrels

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