A Pair of Percussion Pistols by Westley Richards
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
