63-64 Margaret St. London, W1W 8SW
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LOT 449:
PERCUSSION CAP POCKET PISTOL
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200
Estimated price :
£300 - £600
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PERCUSSION CAP POCKET PISTOL
Ca. AD 1860s.A finely crafted pocket pistol, likely from the 1860s, featuring a smoothbore barrel and a percussion cap firing system. The hammer is decorated with a fish-scale motif and the receiver is engraved with swirling, plant-like imagery. The external barrel is round and the wooden handle is rounded. Small and easily concealable, pistols like this would have been used for self-defence.Size: 180mm x 70mm; Weight: 215gProvenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s.
