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Lot 190

A Rare 25-Bore Percussion 1856 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1857

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 25-Bore Percussion 1856 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1857

With blackened leaf-sighted barrel rifled with five wide grooves, blackened tang, dated border engraved case-hardened flat lock stamped 'Tower' and with 'V.R.' crowned on the tail, figured full stock with circular Pimlico arsenal mark dated 1866 and numbered '2' on one side of the butt, and with supplier's name 'J. Pain' on the side-flat, regulation brass mounts including butt-cap stamped 'V.L.' and numbered '2' and '4' on the tang, lanyard swivel, and stirrup ramrod, Ordnance view and proof marks
25.4 cm. barrel

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Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 25 November 2015, lot 258

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