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A PAIR OF SAW-HANDELED PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS with twist octagonal sighted barrels, engraved breeches with white-metal lines, white-metal plugs, scroll engraved tangs each incorporating a back-sight, signed scroll engraved back-action locks, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, engraved steel mounts including spur trigger-guards with pineapple finial, the pommels encircled by a white-metal band with separate triangular-shaped engraved white-metal plaque extending up the spine of each butt, oval engraved white-metal butt-traps each with hinged iron cover, white-metal escutcheon opposite each lock engraved with owner's crest, set triggers, white-metal fore-end caps, and brass-mounted ramrods: in later brass-mounted veneered case lined in purple velvet with some accessories including three-way copper pistol flask, signed J. Manton, London, London proof marks, mid-19th Century
16in.
16in.