An Unusual Pair Of 100-Bore Saw-Handled Percussion Box-Lock Pistols

BY WILLIAM 7 GREEN, LONDON, CIRCA 1850

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An Unusual Pair Of 100-Bore Saw-Handled Percussion Box-Lock Pistols
By William 7 Green, London, circa 1850
With signed white metal octagonal sighted barrels, scroll engraved white metal actions with engraved side-hammers (one retaining nut missing), folding triggers, chequered figured walnut butts (one chipped), white metal escutcheons, flat pommels each encircled by an engraved white metal band and incorporating a butt-trap with engraved hinged iron cover, and stirrup ramrods, London proof marks
8in. (20.9cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

William Green's premises were in Leicester Square between 1838 and 1855. No. 4 Leicester Square was a Gun Repository, and No. 6 (Savile House) was a Shooting Gallery 'brilliantly illuminated with gas', available also for fencing, archery, gymnastics and pool. Edward Oxford practiced there before his attempted assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840. A watercolour of the premises is reproduced in Howard L. Blackmore, A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850, plate 54

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