Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2013 : Sale A121213 Lot 937
TIPPING & LAWDEN A RARE PRESENTATION GRADE .32 (RIMFIRE) FOUR-SHOT POCKET-PISTOL, MODEL SHARPS 1859 PATENT, serial no. 379,

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* TIPPING & LAWDEN
A RARE PRESENTATION GRADE .32 (RIMFIRE) FOUR-SHOT POCKET-PISTOL, MODEL ' SHARP'S 1859 PATENT', serial no. 379,
circa 1870, with slide-forwards fully fluted blued 3in. barrel group (stop missing), engraved fern-tipped band at muzzle, scroll engraved breech-end, panels of scroll engraving with central stippled oval grip-pieces to the left and right hand side of barrel group, fully border and scroll engraved silver-plated frame signed 'TIPPING & LAWDEN SHARPS PATENT ' in a scroll filled circle on the left hand side, push-button barrel release, central blued hammer with rotating nose, chequered ebony grips and blued sheath trigger, much original finish throughout

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Estimate £1,000-1,500