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Lot 119*
A Fine Cased Pair Of 14-Bore Percussion Officer's Belt Pistols Unsigned But Retailed By George Gibbs, Bristol, Circa 1860
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,048 inc. premium
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A Fine Cased Pair Of 14-Bore Percussion Officer's Belt Pistols
Unsigned But Retailed By George Gibbs, Bristol, Circa 1860
Unsigned But Retailed By George Gibbs, Bristol, Circa 1860
With browned twist sighted barrels each with top flat, case-hardened breeches each with gold line, pierced platinum plug and engraved with a palmette on the flat, border engraved case-hardened tangs each decorated with foliate scrollwork, border engraved case-hardened flat locks and dolphin hammers en suite, lightly figured full stocks each with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, steel mounts comprising ovoidal case-hardened butt-caps each engraved with foliate scrollwork and with hinged circular butt-trap cover engraved with a flower-head, blued swept trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, blued belt hooks, white-metal escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, the former each engraved with owner's crest and monogram 'EFMB', stirrup ramrods, and retaining nearly all their original finish: in original lined and fitted oak case (central compartment loose, one compartment lid, lock and keyhole escutcheon missing) with some accessories including Sykes brass-mounted three-way powder-flask retaining most of its original finish, the interior of the lid with retailer's trade label with 9 Corn Street, Bristol address, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and monogram, London proof marks
19 cm. barrel
19 cm. barrel
Footnotes
George Gibbs is recorded at 29 Corn Street, Bristol between 1860 and 1870




