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BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, LONDON, CIRCA 1815
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A FINE PAIR OF 100-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS
By Westley Richards, London, circa 1815
With engraved blued turn-off barrels (one with vice marks), signed scroll engraved actions, rectangular pans, rollers, blued steel-springs, top jaws, screws and thumbpiece safety-catches, walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork bearing acorns, flowers, foliage, and bunches of grapes, engraved silver escutcheons and butt-caps, blued folding triggers, and most of their original finish, London proof marks (2)
By Westley Richards, London, circa 1815
With engraved blued turn-off barrels (one with vice marks), signed scroll engraved actions, rectangular pans, rollers, blued steel-springs, top jaws, screws and thumbpiece safety-catches, walnut butts finely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork bearing acorns, flowers, foliage, and bunches of grapes, engraved silver escutcheons and butt-caps, blued folding triggers, and most of their original finish, London proof marks (2)
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