A PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with Liège proof mark, plain tang with adjustable back-sight, plain lock, figured walnut half-stock shaped for the palm of the hand, blued iron spur trigger-guard, small shaped side-plate, and set trigger with applied bar finger support, probably restocked for Fürst Josef (1773-1861) by Adam Rosen in Dyck, circa 1850

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A PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves and struck with Liège proof mark, plain tang with adjustable back-sight, plain lock, figured walnut half-stock shaped for the palm of the hand, blued iron spur trigger-guard, small shaped side-plate, and set trigger with applied bar finger support, probably restocked for Fürst Josef (1773-1861) by Adam Rosen in Dyck, circa 1850
15¼in. [E.562]

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair of target pistols in Part I, lot 227

For this maker see footnote to lot 276

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