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Lot 111

A Pair Of 18-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistols
By Beckwith, London, Mid-19th Century

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A Pair Of 18-Bore Percussion Box-Lock Belt Pistols
By Beckwith, London, Mid-19th Century

With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed along the top flat, case-hardened breeches and actions each decorated with foliage, dolphin hammers en suite, chequered rounded butts each with foliate engraved cap and with hinged patch-box cover, trigger-guards each engraved with foliage on the border engraved bow and retaining some blueing, blued triggers and under-ribs, blued belt hooks, white-metal escutcheons engraved with owner's initials, stirrup ramrods, and retaining some original finish, London proof marks (2)
8.4 cm. barrels

Footnotes

William Andrew Beckwith was apprenticed to Wattell Clark in 1785. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1808, 1814, 1825 and again in 1840 the year before his death. He was Contractor to Ordnance in 1838 and to the East India Company between 1823 and 1841. The business was carried on by his widow Elizabeth until 1868 being in partnership with their son as Elizabeth Beckwith & Son between 1842 and 1853

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