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PROBABLY GERMAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
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A 160-BORE PERCUSSION UNDER-HAMMER SALOON PISTOL
PROBABLY GERMAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
With swamped octagonal sighted smooth-bore barrel, trigger-plate with removable pillar providing internal percussion ignition, spurred under-hammer trigger-guard, and walnut half-stock; together with A COLT .41 (RIMFIRE) THRID MODEL DERINGER, SERIAL NO. 44527, LATE 19TH CENTURY, with sighted barrel, brass frame with spur trigger, and ivory grips; A 15-BORE PERCUSSION BOXLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL, SIGNED D. EGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1835-40, with rebrowned twist signed barrel, engraved action, chequered walnut butt, engraved iron trigger-guard, and iron stirrup-ramrod, Birmingham proof marks; and AN IRISH 50-BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, SIGNED DEMPSEY, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1830, with twist sighted barrel, signed engraved bolted lock, full stock, iron trigger-guard, silver escutcheon, silver pommel-cap, and later ramrod
Respectively 5¾in. (14.7cm.), 2½in. (6.5cm.), 5in. (12.7cm.) and 2¾in. (7cm.) barrels (4)
PROBABLY GERMAN, MID-19TH CENTURY
With swamped octagonal sighted smooth-bore barrel, trigger-plate with removable pillar providing internal percussion ignition, spurred under-hammer trigger-guard, and walnut half-stock; together with A COLT .41 (RIMFIRE) THRID MODEL DERINGER, SERIAL NO. 44527, LATE 19TH CENTURY, with sighted barrel, brass frame with spur trigger, and ivory grips; A 15-BORE PERCUSSION BOXLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL, SIGNED D. EGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1835-40, with rebrowned twist signed barrel, engraved action, chequered walnut butt, engraved iron trigger-guard, and iron stirrup-ramrod, Birmingham proof marks; and AN IRISH 50-BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, SIGNED DEMPSEY, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1830, with twist sighted barrel, signed engraved bolted lock, full stock, iron trigger-guard, silver escutcheon, silver pommel-cap, and later ramrod
Respectively 5¾in. (14.7cm.), 2½in. (6.5cm.), 5in. (12.7cm.) and 2¾in. (7cm.) barrels (4)
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