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A Fine Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND ST., LONDON, NO. 707, CIRCA 1840
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A Fine Pair Of 32-Bore Percussion Target Pistols
By Westley Richards, 170 New Bond St., London, No. 707, circa 1840
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled and signed in full on the top flat, engraved case-hardened patent breeches each incorporating the back-sight and with pierced platinum plug and two platinum lines, scroll engraved case-hardened tangs, signed scroll engraved case-hardened detented locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut half-stocks (minor bruising), chequered butts, scroll engraved case-hardened pommels, blued trigger-guards finely engraved with differing standing figures of marksmen, each holding a pistol, case-hardened trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and nearly all their original finish throughout, Birmingham proof marks, barrelsmith's mark GT
15¾in. (40cm.) (2)
By Westley Richards, 170 New Bond St., London, No. 707, circa 1840
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels polygroove rifled and signed in full on the top flat, engraved case-hardened patent breeches each incorporating the back-sight and with pierced platinum plug and two platinum lines, scroll engraved case-hardened tangs, signed scroll engraved case-hardened detented locks each with safety-catch, figured walnut half-stocks (minor bruising), chequered butts, scroll engraved case-hardened pommels, blued trigger-guards finely engraved with differing standing figures of marksmen, each holding a pistol, case-hardened trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and nearly all their original finish throughout, Birmingham proof marks, barrelsmith's mark GT
15¾in. (40cm.) (2)