Product Details
B. COGSWELL, LONDON
A CASED PAIR OF 28-BORE OVER AND UNDER BOXLOCK PERCUSSION BELT PISTOLS,
mid-19th century, with 5in. reblued sighted barrels each signed 'B. COGSWELL. 224 STRAND. LONDON' on the sighting flat and engraved with foliage at the muzzle and scrollwork at the breech, border and scroll engraved bolted actions, finely chequered walnut butts, case-hardened scroll engraved butt-caps each with hinged trap-cover, blued scroll engraved trigger-guards, silver escutcheons, and reblued belt-hooks and stirrup ramrods (some rubbing to bluing on barrels and belt-hooks), London proof marks, in later fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including brass-mounted copper two-way pistol-flask and iron pincer-type bullet-mould, the lid with reproduction trade label, the exterior with brass escutcheon.
Estimate £3,000-5,000
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.