Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2013 : Sale A190913 Lot 1043 - S5
TIPPING & LAWDEN A CASED .22 (R/F SHORT) FOUR-BARRELLED POCKET-PISTOL, MODEL SHARPS PATENT, serial no. 418,

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TIPPING & LAWDEN
A CASED .22 (R/F SHORT) FOUR-BARRELLED POCKET-PISTOL, MODEL 'SHARP'S PATENT', serial no. 418,
circa 1870, with blued 2 5/8in. barrel-group, plain silver-plated frame signed 'TIPPING & LAWDEN SHARP'S PATENT' in a circle around the hammer axis screw on the left hand side, centrally mounted blued hammer with rotary auto-indexing nose, black 'gutta-percha' grips with raised foliate design and blued push button opener, the whole with much original finish remaining TOGETHER WITH its walnut English market storage case with brass shield-shaped escutcheon to the burr-walnut veneered lid, compartmented and lined in blue baize and containing the original clearing rod, oil bottle, turn-screw and the relic remains of the rare printed instruction sheet, the inner lid with parchment retailers label of 'ROBERT S. GARDEN, 29 PICCADILLY, LONDON'

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Estimate £200-300

S5