A RARE CONTINENTAL BREECH-LOADING NEEDLE-FIRE KNIFE-PISTOL with sighted barrel, octagonal breech with bolt-action, folding single-edged fullered knife-blade etched with manufacturer's name 'Mson Tinnenbrock', locked in the open position, and released by the folding trigger also incorporating a corkscrew, white-metal mounted body with mother-of-pearl side-plates, the plummet-shaped butt with hinged butt-trap cover and shaped tortoise-shell grip-scales (one cracked): in original black leather-covered pipe casing (slightly damaged) lined in green velvet, the lid stamped 'Mson Tinnenbrock Aux Armes D'Angleterre' in gilt letters with gilt British royal arms between, late 19th Century | Christie's

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A RARE CONTINENTAL BREECH-LOADING NEEDLE-FIRE KNIFE-PISTOL with sighted barrel, octagonal breech with bolt-action, folding single-edged fullered knife-blade etched with manufacturer's name 'Mson Tinnenbrock', locked in the open position, and released by the folding trigger also incorporating a corkscrew, white-metal mounted body with mother-of-pearl side-plates, the plummet-shaped butt with hinged butt-trap cover and shaped tortoise-shell grip-scales (one cracked): in original black leather-covered pipe casing (slightly damaged) lined in green velvet, the lid stamped 'Mson Tinnenbrock Aux Armes D'Angleterre' in gilt letters with gilt British royal arms between, late 19th Century

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A RARE CONTINENTAL BREECH-LOADING NEEDLE-FIRE KNIFE-PISTOL with sighted barrel, octagonal breech with bolt-action, folding single-edged fullered knife-blade etched with manufacturer's name 'Mson Tinnenbrock', locked in the open position, and released by the folding trigger also incorporating a corkscrew, white-metal mounted body with mother-of-pearl side-plates, the plummet-shaped butt with hinged butt-trap cover and shaped tortoise-shell grip-scales (one cracked): in original black leather-covered pipe casing (slightly damaged) lined in green velvet, the lid stamped 'Mson Tinnenbrock Aux Armes D'Angleterre' in gilt letters with gilt British royal arms between, late 19th Century
7½in.