A LIEGE PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL with browned twist swamped octagonal sighted barrel, engraved case-hardened tang with adjustable back-sight, signed foliate engraved flat lock (hammer repaired, hammer spur incomplete, retaining screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock carved with a lion-head in relief on the fore-end, butt cut on each side with a design of diamond chequering and carved with a band of leaves around the pommel, engraved case-hardened iron mounts comprising side-plate, pommel-cap, and spur trigger-guard, vacant white-metal escutcheon, set trigger, and no provision for a ramrod, signed Ed. Kuhnert in Berlin, Liège proof, mid-19th Century

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A LIEGE PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL with browned twist swamped octagonal sighted barrel, engraved case-hardened tang with adjustable back-sight, signed foliate engraved flat lock (hammer repaired, hammer spur incomplete, retaining screw replaced), figured walnut half-stock carved with a lion-head in relief on the fore-end, butt cut on each side with a design of diamond chequering and carved with a band of leaves around the pommel, engraved case-hardened iron mounts comprising side-plate, pommel-cap, and spur trigger-guard, vacant white-metal escutcheon, set trigger, and no provision for a ramrod, signed Ed. Kuhnert in Berlin, Liège proof, mid-19th Century
14½in.

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