Fine Modern & Antique Arms - July 2022 : Sale A0722 Lot 699
CHARLES MOORE, LONDON A FINE CASED PAIR OF 40-BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET-PISTOLS, serial no. 1237,

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CHARLES MOORE, LONDON
A FINE CASED PAIR OF 40-BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET-PISTOLS, serial no. 1237,
circa 1826 and later converted to percussion, with browned twist 10in. rifled barrels signed on the top-flat '77 ST JAMES'S STREET, LONDON', dove-tailed fore-sights, standing notch rear-sights, platinum poincon to breech-blocks signed 'C. MOORE LONDON PATENT' together with a crown (traces of faded colour), platinum lines and vented plugs, engraved top-tang with traces of colour, flat border engraved locks signed 'C. MOORE, LONDON' (traces of colour), slab sided hammers with sliding safes to rear, walnut half-stocks with chequered pistol-grips swelling at the flat-heeled pommels, white metal escutcheons to wrists and pommel centres, blued trigger-guards drilled for mounting finger-spurs (spurs included but not fitted), and brass mounted ramrods, complete with their makers mahogany case lined and compartmented in green baize, clipped corner parchment makers label inside lid and together with a good three-way flask, turnscrew, nipple-key, loading rod and hammer combined and ebony nipple-pot



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Estimate £4,500-6,000