A Pair of Percussion Pocket Pistols by Venables of Oxford. With re-blued sighted octagonal barrels, decorated with geometric bands at the muzzles, stamped with Birmingham proofs, tutaneg box-lock actions profusely engraved with scrolling foliage and signed ‘VENABLES OXFORD’ on scrolls, steel cocks engraved en suite, swelling walnut butts cut with micro-chequering and decorated with engraved silver studs at the base.

VENABLES [about 1850]
Shop at Oxford. Made cased percussion travelling pistols with loading accessories.

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York.

Dimensions:
Bore: 80 Bore
Barrel Length: 1.5 Inches (3.80 cm)
Overall Length: 5 Inches (12.70 cm)