A Cased Pair of Belt Pistols
An Unusual Cased Pair Of 18-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistols Retailed By Salmond, Perth, Mid-19th Century.
With blued octagonal sighted barrels each engraved around the muzzle and signed along the top flat, silvered breeches and actions decorated with foliate scrollwork, dolphin hammers (one spur repaired) en suite, safety-catches, border engraved trigger-guards retaining some blueing and decorated with foliate scrollwork, unusually chequered figured rounded butts highlighted with silver pins and decorated with silver piqué foliage, silvered border engraved butt-caps each with hinged circular trap cover engraved with a flower-head, belt hooks, one retaining some original blueing, vacant silver escutcheons, silvered under-ribs, stirrup ramrods each with tip engraved with a flower-head, and retaining much of their original finish: in original mahogany case lined in tooled pigskin with accessories including Sykes patent powder-flask retaining much of its lacquered finish, the exterior of the lid with circular brass escutcheon engraved ‘J.A. From W.H.A.’, Birmingham proof marks
Dimension:
Bore: 16 Bore
Barrel Length: 4 Inches (10.16 cm)
Overall Length: 9.5 Inches (24.13 cm)
£3,950.00
1 in stock
