A Day's patent combined truncheon and percussion pistol

CIRCA 1823

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A Day's patent combined truncheon and percussion pistol
circa 1823
With brass turn-off cannon barrel decorated with bands of ornamental turning, and stamped with initials 'JR', brass action (hammer replaced) decorated en suite and fitted with a rectangular brass plaque on each side embossed 'Day's Patent', flush-fitting trigger, and hollow eagle's head pommel cast and chased in the round (screw-on cap replaced), Birmingham proof marks
15¾in. (39.7cm.)

Lot Essay

This truncheon pistol embodies patent No. 4861 of 13 November 1823
See Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa, 1955, pl. 176, p. 154

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