PERCUSSION PISTOLS
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A FRENCH OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL with etched twist sighted barrels each with flared elliptical muzzle, signed 'Fni P Le Page Moutier Arqr. Du Roi' in gold on the top flat at the breech, scroll engraved tang, hammers and back-action locks, the last signed 'Moutier arq er du Roi', figured chequered walnut butt, and scroll engraved iron mounts including butt-trap with pivoting cover and ring for a lanyard (light pitting overall), St. Etienne proof, circa 1850; and an all-metal saw-handeled percussion box-lock pistol with rifled octagonal sighted barrel, signed scroll engraved white-metal action and butt in one piece, oval butt-plate engraved with a stylised scallop-shell, engraved white-metal spur trigger-guard, and stirrup ramrod, signed Nock, London, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th Century
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A FRENCH OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL with etched twist sighted barrels each with flared elliptical muzzle, signed 'Fni P Le Page Moutier Arqr. Du Roi' in gold on the top flat at the breech, scroll engraved tang, hammers and back-action locks, the last signed 'Moutier arq er du Roi', figured chequered walnut butt, and scroll engraved iron mounts including butt-trap with pivoting cover and ring for a lanyard (light pitting overall), St. Etienne proof, circa 1850; and an all-metal saw-handeled percussion box-lock pistol with rifled octagonal sighted barrel, signed scroll engraved white-metal action and butt in one piece, oval butt-plate engraved with a stylised scallop-shell, engraved white-metal spur trigger-guard, and stirrup ramrod, signed Nock, London, Birmingham proof marks, mid-19th Century
14¼in. and 8½in. (2)
14¼in. and 8½in. (2)