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A PERCUSSION SERVICE PISTOL with blued 8in. sighted barrel, case-hardened lock stamped 'EIG' with crown above and 'Birmingham 1871', walnut full stock stamped with War Department mark and supplier's name 'Joseph Smith', brass mounts, iron lanyard ring and stirrup ramrod, and most of its original finish, dated 1871; and a percussion officer's pistol with octagonal sighted barrel, engraved breech and tang, the former with white-metal lines, signed foliate engraved back-action lock, figured walnut full stock, engraved iron mounts, vacant white-metal escutcheon, and stirrup ramrod (light pitting overall), signed Homan, Bristol, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th Century
14in. and 12½in. (2)
14in. and 12½in. (2)