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MID-19TH CENTURY
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A CONTINENTAL CASED PAIR OF PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOLS WITH CARVED IVORY BUTTS BY DEVISME À PARIS
Mid-19th Century
With strongly fluted bright turn-off barrels, box-lock actions boldly etched with scrollwork finished bright on a contrasting pounced darkened ground, concealed folding triggers, carved fluted ivory butts cut with panels of neo-rococo flowers and scrolls and signed in small letters behind the action tang (each cracked on one side behind the action, one also cracked through the median and the signature rubbed), and with domed shaped butt-caps decorated en suite with the actions, Liège proof: in original ebonised fitted case, lined in red velvet, the lid with moulded and banded edge, escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials and Count's coronet, and retaining its original combination bullet mould, ivory powder-flask and ivory cap box.
5 7/8in (15cm)
Mid-19
With strongly fluted bright turn-off barrels, box-lock actions boldly etched with scrollwork finished bright on a contrasting pounced darkened ground, concealed folding triggers, carved fluted ivory butts cut with panels of neo-rococo flowers and scrolls and signed in small letters behind the action tang (each cracked on one side behind the action, one also cracked through the median and the signature rubbed), and with domed shaped butt-caps decorated en suite with the actions, Liège proof: in original ebonised fitted case, lined in red velvet, the lid with moulded and banded edge, escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials and Count's coronet, and retaining its original combination bullet mould, ivory powder-flask and ivory cap box.
5 7/8
Literature
Alaric and Etienne, Deux paires de pistolets en boite de Devisme, G.d.A., No.288, May 1998.
Special notice
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