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A Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Pistols Rifled For Belted Balls
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London, United Kingdom
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A Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Pistols Rifled For Belted Balls By Venables, Oxford, Mid-19th Century With browned damascus twist octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed in capitals along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened breeches each decorated with a foliate scroll and with gold line and platinum plug, shaped border engraved tangs each with back-sight and decorated with foliate scrollwork, border engraved flat detented case-hardened locks each signed in capitals and decorated with foliate scrolls, hammers en suite and each with engraved safety-catch behind, figured full stocks (some old bruising) each with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, the latter each with case-hardened butt-cap with circular butt-trap cover engraved with a foliate scroll, blued trigger-guards decorated en suite and each with pineapple finial, adjustable set triggers, vacant silver escutcheons, original brass-tipped ramrods, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask retaining some of its original finish, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label for J. Venables & Son, the exterior with shaped vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks 14.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: John Venables is recorded at 21 St. Algate's Street, Oxford between 1846 and 1863, and with his son at the same address in 1868 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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A Cased Pair Of 50-Bore Percussion Pistols Rifled For Belted Balls By Venables, Oxford, Mid-19th Century With browned damascus twist octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed in capitals along the top flat, border engraved case-hardened breeches each decorated with a foliate scroll and with gold line and platinum plug, shaped border engraved tangs each with back-sight and decorated with foliate scrollwork, border engraved flat detented case-hardened locks each signed in capitals and decorated with foliate scrolls, hammers en suite and each with engraved safety-catch behind, figured full stocks (some old bruising) each with dark horn fore-end cap and chequered rounded butt, the latter each with case-hardened butt-cap with circular butt-trap cover engraved with a foliate scroll, blued trigger-guards decorated en suite and each with pineapple finial, adjustable set triggers, vacant silver escutcheons, original brass-tipped ramrods, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask retaining some of its original finish, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label for J. Venables & Son, the exterior with shaped vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks 14.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: John Venables is recorded at 21 St. Algate's Street, Oxford between 1846 and 1863, and with his son at the same address in 1868 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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