A PAIR OF BELGIAN UNDER-HAMMER PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS with twist octagonal sighted rifled barrels each inlaid in silver with retailer's signature on the top flat, engraved breeches with silver lines, long tangs engraved with scrollwork, scroll engraved hammer cocked by compressing the engraved spur trigger-guard, engraved safety-stop in front of the hammer, the trigger-plate with silver-inlaid inscription 'Com Priviligio', walnut full stocks with 'dummy' side-plate on each side carved with foliage in relief against a stippled ground, chequered butts, scroll engraved pommels each with baluster finial, and one original iron- and brass-mounted baleen ramrod (the other missing, metal parts with some light pitting), signed L.J.V.R. De Castro A Rio-De-Janeiro, Nos. 244 and 245, Liège proof, mid-19th Century