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A Cased Pair Of 13-Bore Percussion Officer's PistolsSigned Reeves & Co., London, Mid-19th Century
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,805 inc. premium
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A Cased Pair Of 13-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistols
Signed Reeves & Co., London, Mid-19th Century
Signed Reeves & Co., London, Mid-19th Century
With browned twist sighted barrels each engraved 'London' on the sighting flat, case-hardened breeches each engraved with foliage on the flat and with platinum plug, foliate engraved case-hardened tangs each with back-sight, signed border engraved case-hardened flat locks each with engraved safety-catch and decorated with foliated scrollwork, hammers en suite, figured full stocks (one with small nicks along the bottom edge of the side-flat) each with chequered rounded butt, blued steel trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, silver escutcheons each engraved with owner's crest, dark horn fore-end caps, stirrup ramrods, and most of their original finish (barrels and trigger-guards with some surface patination): in original brass-mounted lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including mainspring clamp and Sykes brass-mounted powder-flask, the latter with bevelled wedge-shaped body and retaining most of its lacquered finish, the exterior of the lid with shaped brass escutcheon incorporating a flush-fitting carrying handle, Birmingham proof marks
18.7 cm. barrels
18.7 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Reeves & Co. are most probably Reeves & Greaves of Birmingham who are recorded between 1829 and 1839, and are known to have marked their firearms 'London'








