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A CASED PAIR OF 36-BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED OVERCOAT PISTOLS
BY SOUTHALL, CIRCA 1840
With sighted short browned twist barrels cut with nine grooves and with sighting groove, case-hardened patent breeches each with crowned gold-lined stamp 'Southall Patent', case-hardened signed scroll engraved locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut full stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued iron mounts, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and nearly all their original finish: in contemporary fitted mahogany case lined in green velvet, with accessories, Birmingham proof marks
7in.
BY SOUTHALL, CIRCA 1840
With sighted short browned twist barrels cut with nine grooves and with sighting groove, case-hardened patent breeches each with crowned gold-lined stamp 'Southall Patent', case-hardened signed scroll engraved locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut full stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued iron mounts, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and nearly all their original finish: in contemporary fitted mahogany case lined in green velvet, with accessories, Birmingham proof marks
7in.
Literature
J.N. George, English Pistols and Revolvers, p. 133, plate XVIII (2, 3). They are described in the text as "muzzle-loading rifled weapons of a type comparable to the American Deringer pistols of the eighteen-forties, being short barrelled arms of relatively large bore, carrying a man-stopping charge"