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A 25-Bore Percussion Officer's PistolBy Tho.s Horsley, York, Mid-19th Century
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £704 inc. premium
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A 25-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistol
By Tho.s Horsley, York, Mid-19th Century
By Tho.s Horsley, York, Mid-19th Century
With damascus twist octagonal sighted barrel signed along the top flat, foliate scroll engraved breech and tang, flat lock and cock decorated en suite, figured full stock with horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, the latter with ovoidal stepped cap engraved with a flower-head centred on the hinged butt-trap cover, border engraved trigger-guard with pineapple finial and decorated with foliage on the bow, vacant silver escutcheon, barrel-bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
20.1 cm. barrel
20.1 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Thomas Horsley is recorded at 48 Coney Street, York, Yorkshire between 1833 and 1870




