Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2019 : Sale A0319 Lot 1042
TIPPING & LAWDEN, BIRMINGHAM A .22 (SHORT) FOUR-BARRELLED DELUXE VEST-PISTOL, MODEL SHARPS PATENT, serial number obscured,

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TIPPING & LAWDEN, BIRMINGHAM
A .22 (SHORT) FOUR-BARRELLED DELUXE VEST-PISTOL, MODEL 'SHARP'S PATENT', serial number obscured,
four digit circa 1870, with 2 1/2in. barrel-group, engraved band at the muzzles, the centre of the barrel sides engraved with scrolls and a stippled panel forming a thumb grip, fully scroll and florally engraved brass frame with stippled background, the 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 (mainspring weak), gutta-percha grips with raised foliate design, blued push button opener

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Estimate £200-300

S5 - Sold as a Section 5 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act, Section 7.3 Eligible


Unless prior arrangement has been made, two weeks after the Sealed bid sale, all Section 5 (and Section 7.1 / 7.3) items will be moved to a Section 5 carriers where storage charges will be incurred.

Goods will not be released until all outstanding charges have been met. Collection will be by arrangement.