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BY WILLIAM WEBSTER, LONDON, CIRCA 1815
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A FINE CASED PAIR OF 140-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS
By William Webster, London, circa 1815
With engraved turn-off barrels, signed actions engraved with scrollwork and a monster-head, rectangular pans, rollers, blued steel-springs, top jaws, screws and thumbpiece safety-catches, walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork bearing flowers, roundels, and foliage, engraved silver butt-caps, blued folding triggers, and much original finish: in associated lined and fitted mahogany case with bullet mould and copper and brass three-way flask, the lid with Charles Lancaster trade label and brass circular escutcheon engraved with owner's name and crest, London proof marks
4½in. (11.5cm.)
By William Webster, London, circa 1815
With engraved turn-off barrels, signed actions engraved with scrollwork and a monster-head, rectangular pans, rollers, blued steel-springs, top jaws, screws and thumbpiece safety-catches, walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork bearing flowers, roundels, and foliage, engraved silver butt-caps, blued folding triggers, and much original finish: in associated lined and fitted mahogany case with bullet mould and copper and brass three-way flask, the lid with Charles Lancaster trade label and brass circular escutcheon engraved with owner's name and crest, London proof marks
4½in. (11.5cm.)
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