Product Details
B. COGSWELL, LONDON
A .650 PERCUSSION DOUBLE-BARRELLED 'HOWDAH' PISTOL, no visible serial number,
circa 1860, with browned twist-steel 7in. barrels, the top-rib signed 'B. COGSWELL, 224 STRAND LONDON', nickel bead fore-sight, scroll engraving to the breech-end and top tang, border-line and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'B. COGSWELL', scroll engraved hammers, chequered walnut full-stock with bag-shaped grip (old repair beneath left-hand lock), rectangular escutcheon to wrist, border-line and scroll engraved iron trigger-guard bow, silver take-down wedge escutcheons and steel ramrod (stirrup system from ramrod missing)
Estimate £700-900