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Lot 174

A Cased Pair Of 38-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols
By Burnard, Newcastle On Tyne, Mid-19th Century

10 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Cased Pair Of 38-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols
By Burnard, Newcastle On Tyne, Mid-19th Century

With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted smooth-bore barrels each signed along the top flat in front of the back-sight, border engraved case-hardened recessed patent breeches each with platinum line, platinum plug engraved with a star and decorated with a shell on the flat, case-hardened tangs engraved with foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened detented flat lock decorated with foliate scrollwork, dolphin hammers en suite (one hammer spur replaced, the other with old fracture), safety-catches each engraved with ropework, highly figured lacquered half-stocks each with angled chequered rounded butt, border engraved steel mounts comprising case-hardened ovoidal butt-caps each decorated with a shell motif on the oval flat, blued trigger-guards decorated with foliate scrollwork, case-hardened trigger-plates each with engraved pineapple finial, and fore-end caps each engraved with a starburst, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, adjustable set triggers, no provision for ramrods, and retaining much of their original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted oak case with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask, steel bullet mould, and combined ramrod and cleaning rod, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with initials 'H.C.P.' in gothic letters and centred on a flush-fitting circular brass carrying handle, London proof marks
23.8 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Richard Burnand, successor to John Gardner, is recorded at 111 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 1843 and 1865

The form of these pistols is reminiscent of those built by James Purdey

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