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A 12-Bore Percussion Officer's PistolBy Wilkinson, Pall-Mall, London, Mid-19th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £192 inc. premium
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A 12-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistol
By Wilkinson, Pall-Mall, London, Mid-19th Century
By Wilkinson, Pall-Mall, London, Mid-19th Century
With browned sighted barrel (some surface rust), border engraved case-hardened breech, tang, signed flat lock, and hammer (nose chipped), figured full stock with horn fore-end cap, circular case-hardened butt-cap with hinged butt-trap cover, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and motto, blued border engraved trigger-guard, and captive ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
22 cm. barrel
22 cm. barrel
Footnotes
The crest and motto are possibly that of the Formby family of Formby, Lancashire, perhaps Rev. Lonsdale Formby (1816-1896)




