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Lot 137

A Cased Pair Of 60-Bore Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols
By Riviere, London, Early 19th Century

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

£800 - £1,000

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A Cased Pair Of 60-Bore Flintlock Travelling Or Overcoat Pistols
By Riviere, London, Early 19th Century

With browned sighted barrels each engraved 'LONDON' along the sighting flat, foliate engraved tangs, flat locks (one cock retaining screw replaced) each signed in capitals, decorated with a starburst behind the pan and on the stepped tail, and with safety-catch, figured full stocks (one fore-end with split repair), trigger-guards each decorated with a martial trophy on the bow, and wooden ramrods, one original: in later oak case with powder-flask, the interior of the lid with reproduction maker's trade label, the exterior with vacant brass escutcheon
12.3 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Isaac 2 Riviere was granted English Patent No. 5175 (for concealed percussion locks) in 1825. His lock was rejected by the Ordnance in 1834. He joined the H.A.C. in 1821, became a Captain in the Jäger Corps in which he served between 1833 and 1848, and died in 1851

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