A FINE PAIR OF PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS with barrels and actions of German silver, the former octagonal and signed in full, the latter engraved with scrolling foliage, blued hammers (one repaired), blued folding triggers and thumbpiece safety-catches, and walnut butts profusely inlaid with cornucopiae, flowers, foliage and scrolls in German silver, the engraved pommels each with butt-trap, by Joseph Egg & Sons, No.1 Piccadilly, London, London proof marks, circa 1840 | Christie's

Lot 218

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A FINE PAIR OF PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS with barrels and actions of German silver, the former octagonal and signed in full, the latter engraved with scrolling foliage, blued hammers (one repaired), blued folding triggers and thumbpiece safety-catches, and walnut butts profusely inlaid with cornucopiae, flowers, foliage and scrolls in German silver, the engraved pommels each with butt-trap, by Joseph Egg & Sons, No.1 Piccadilly, London, London proof marks, circa 1840

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A FINE PAIR OF PERCUSSION BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS with barrels and actions of German silver, the former octagonal and signed in full, the latter engraved with scrolling foliage, blued hammers (one repaired), blued folding triggers and thumbpiece safety-catches, and walnut butts profusely inlaid with cornucopiae, flowers, foliage and scrolls in German silver, the engraved pommels each with butt-trap, by Joseph Egg & Sons, No.1 Piccadilly, London, London proof marks, circa 1840
6½in. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. a very similar pair of pistols in the Victoria and Albert Museum (No.M 345 A to F-1940), illustrated in Claude Blair, Pistols of the World, plate 364

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