Product Details
W. PARKER, LONDON
A 16-BORE SAW-HANDLED PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL,
circa 1840, with 6in. twist sighted barrel signed 'W. PARKER. HOLBORN. LONDON. MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY' on the full length sighting flat, border engraved breech with pierced platinum plug, foliate and border engraved tang also incorporating the rear-sight, border and scroll engraved bolted lock signed 'W. PARKER', figured walnut three-quarter stock with chequered butt (tip of saw-handle chipped, some bruising throughout), set trigger, engraved iron trigger-guard, scroll engraved silver butt-cap, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, and iron stirrup ramrod (stirrup-pin missing, some pitting and corrosion throughout).
Estimate £200-300
THE ABOVE LOT IS PURCHASED AS AN EXEMPT ITEM UNDER SECTION 58 (2) OF THE 1968 FIREARMS ACT. TO BE HELD AS A CURIOSITY OR ORNAMENT.