A Superb Pair of Cased 28-Bore Percussion Overcoat Pistols by Westley Richards, No. 593, Circa 1850. With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in full along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened breeches each decorated with a foliate scroll on top and with platinum line and pierced platinum plug, border engraved case-hardened tangs each with back-sight and decorated with foliate scrollwork, signed flat locks and dolphin hammers en suite, engraved safety-catches, figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts, the latter each with ovoidal case-hardened cap with foliate scroll engraved hinged circular patch-box cover, blued serial numbered trigger-guards each decorated with foliate scrollwork on the border engraved bow, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, stirrup ramrods, and retaining nearly all their original finish: in their contemporary lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories comprising small Sykes Patent powder-flask retaining much of its lacquered finish (cut-off spring incomplete), steel bullet mould and ramrod, the exterior of the lid with vacant brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks 

RICHARDS

William Westley Gunmaker, Birmingham from 1812. Retail shop (with William Bishop as agent) 170 New Bond Street.,1826-72; 25 Lawrence Pountney Street., 1853-5. Gunmaker to Prince Albert. Died 1865. Firm then run by son, Westley Richards. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

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Bore: 28 Bore

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