A Cased Pair of Wesley Richards Officers Pistols
With browned sighted octagonal barrels signed along the top-flats, ‘Westley Richards 170 New Bond St London’ with foliate engraved breech blocks with single platinum lines, tangs incorporating rear-sight, beautifully foliate engraved, signed foliate engraved tangs fitted with sliding safety catches, full stocked in walnut (some scuff and hair-line crack towards the muzzle of one) deeply cut with chequering at the grips, with vacant rectangular escutcheons, blued steel trigger guards engraved with foliage on the bow, complete with captive ram-rods. In original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three way flask (missing spring) the lid with trade label and flush fitting carrying handle. Both pistols are numbered ‘331’ on the barrels and the trigger guards, pistols retinal original brown underneath.
