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BY JOSEPH EGG, NO.1 PICCADILLY, LONDON, NO. 3123, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS, CIRCA 1830
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A FINE CASED 140-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL
By Joseph Egg, No.1 Piccadilly, London, No. 3123, London silver hallmarks, circa 1830
With signed blued octagonal barrels, the upper one sighted, scroll engraved breeches and tang, engraved platinum plugs, signed scroll engraved case-hardened locks each with blued external mainspring, chequered figured walnut butt, scroll engraved silver trigger-guard and pommel, the latter with vacant gold cap, small vacant gold escutcheon, no provision for a ramrod, and nearly all its original finish (the hammers each a working replacement): in fitted silver-mounted rosewood-veneered case lined in plum velvet with accessories (turnscrew and nipple-wrench missing) and two hammers
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.)
By Joseph Egg, No.1 Piccadilly, London, No. 3123, London silver hallmarks, circa 1830
With signed blued octagonal barrels, the upper one sighted, scroll engraved breeches and tang, engraved platinum plugs, signed scroll engraved case-hardened locks each with blued external mainspring, chequered figured walnut butt, scroll engraved silver trigger-guard and pommel, the latter with vacant gold cap, small vacant gold escutcheon, no provision for a ramrod, and nearly all its original finish (the hammers each a working replacement): in fitted silver-mounted rosewood-veneered case lined in plum velvet with accessories (turnscrew and nipple-wrench missing) and two hammers
6 1/8in. (15.6cm.)