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Lot 311

A Fine Cased Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gunmaker's, London, Nos. 4010 and 4011, Circa 1835

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols
By Forsyth & Co., Patent Gunmaker's, London, Nos. 4010 and 4011, Circa 1835

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels signed along the top flat, case-hardened octagonal breeches each with two platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, border engraved case-hardened tangs each decorated with a design of foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened serial numbered detented back-action locks each engraved with foliage and with blued safety-catch, hammers en suite with the locks, highly figured butts each with chequered grip and flat ovoidal pommel, blued D-shaped spur trigger-guards each decorated with three flower-heads within swirling foliage, vacant silver escutcheons, original brass-tipped ramrods each with horn terminal, and retaining much of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask with red leather-covered body, powder-dispenser, steel bullet mould numbered '4010' and mainspring clamp, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label of sixth design for 1828-38, and owner's armorial bookplate of William Edward Royds, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle engraved 'William Edward Royds, Rochdale', and centred on a circular brass escutcheon engraved with his crest and motto, London proof marks
24 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Previously unrecorded

For a very similar cased pair of pistols (nos. 4129 and 4130) see D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, Forsyth & Co. Patent Gunmakers 1806-1852, 1995, pl. 39

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