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A Cased Pair Of 10-Bore Percussion Officer's Pistols
By Henry Nock, London, No. 121, late 18th Century
Coverted from flintlock, with heavy slightly swamped browned twist octagonal sighted barrels rifled with eleven grooves, case-hardened patent breeches each with gold-lined maker's stamp, gold line and pierced platinum plug, case-hardened engraved tangs incorporating the back-sight, signed engraved detented case-hardened locks each with safety-catch and stepped tail, figured walnut full stocks (minor bruising, one with two small chips), chequered butts apart from a plain strip on each side, blued iron mounts including engraved spur trigger-guards, trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, set triggers, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, silver fore-end caps, and original horn-tipped ramrods each with worm: in original brass-bound lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three-way flask covered in red leather, and bullet mould, the lid with later trade label of James Wilkinson, No. 17, Ludgate Hill, London for circa 1806-17, the exterior with flush-fitting carrying handle engraved 'Sir Harford Jones Bar.t', London proof marks; together with a copy of Patrick Macrory, Signal Catastrophe. The Retreat From Kabul 1842, 1966
15in. (39.3cm.) (2)
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