A Cased Pair of Over and Under Pistols
A Cased Pair Of 54-Bore Percussion Rifled Over-And-Under Belt Pistols
By Pritchett & Son, London, Circa 1855 With recoloured long sighted barrels each signed along the top flat, engraved around the muzzles and rifled with numerous grooves, border engraved case-hardened actions and hammers decorated with foliate scrollwork, the former with engraved safety-catches, recoloured trigger-guards decorated en suite, finely chequered figured rounded butts each with stepped ovoidal butt-cap with hinged circular butt-trap cover engraved with scrolling foliage, vacant silver escutcheons, and recoloured belt hooks, under-ribs and stirrup ramrods, the latter each engraved with a flower-head on the tip: in wooden case fitted and lined in plum velvet with some accessories including reproduction white-metal powder-flask with ovoidal body, and nipple-key, London proof marks
