Product Details
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE .580 PERCUSSION JACOB-RIFLED OVER AND UNDER HOLSTER PISTOL SIGNED R.S GARDEN, registration no. L392,
circa 1863, with round tapering 6in. barrels rifled for the Jacob style bullet in four grooves, the flat sighting plane fitted with a dove-tailed fore-sight and a rear-sight of four folding leaves with an additional shallow standing notch, the sighting plane further signed 'R.S GARDEN, 29 PICCADILLY, LONDON', moulded breech-block with scroll engraving to upper surface, borderline and scroll engraved curved back action locks signed R.S. GARDEN' and with sliding safes behind the asymmetric hammers, chequered walnut grip flared and capped at the pommel and bored through with a lined lanyard aperture, white metal vacant oval escutcheon to wrist and brass-tipped captive iron ramrod stored on a lower rib below the barrels, strong traces of original finish throughout and appearing little used
Provenance: Only two other pistols of this style are known to us at the time of writing and they are housed in the Royal Armouries at Leeds. The two pistols in question are a pair and were manufactured for General Jacob (q.v.), and came to light during a recording of BBC's 'Antique Roadshow' programme. One can only assume or speculate that this pistol was ordered at the same time, possibly in case the manufacture of the pair had problems, or was ordered by another officer of Jacob's Horse to be in the same style as his former commanding officer.
Robert S. Garden moved to 29 Piccadilly in 1862, a relative, Hugh Garden had previously been at 200 Piccadilly from 1826
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Estimate £1,500-2,500