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An Unusually Cased Pair Of French 50-Bore Flintlock Rifled Box-Lock PistolsBy De Boubert A Paris, Circa 1815
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £3,187.50 inc. premium
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An Unusually Cased Pair Of French 50-Bore Flintlock Rifled Box-Lock Pistols
By De Boubert A Paris, Circa 1815
By De Boubert A Paris, Circa 1815
With turn-off cannon barrels numbered '1' and '2' respectively at the octagonal breeches and each rifled with eight grooves, border engraved actions signed in script beneath the rounded breeches and each decorated with a design of neo-classical foliage on both sides, border engraved button safety-catches also locking the engraved steels, engraved cocks, folding triggers engraved en suite with the actions, figured rounded butts each carved on both sides with overlapping scales within foliate borders, and along the back with overlapping leaves: in original fitted oval case covered in burgundy leather and lined in green baize (interior of the lid moth damaged, one lock-catch missing) with accessories comprising brass-mounted lanthorn powder-flask and combined steel bullet mould, barrel-wrench and sprue-cutter
7.5 cm. barrels
7.5 cm. barrels
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Provenance
The Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
De Boubert is recorded in Paris between 1812 and 1830. On 22 September 1820 he was granted a patent for a fulminate powder for use in percussion caps
Offered with a handwritten postcard from W. Keith Neal giving details of the maker and his claim 'to be one of the early inventors of percussion.'








