With browned twist octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed in full along the top flat at the breech, the latter each with broad platinum line and platinum-lined touch-hole, grooved case-hardened tangs each engraved with foliage and incorporating the back-sight, signed case-hardened border engraved serial numbered detented locks each decorated with a martial trophy on the tail, safety-catches, rainproof pans, blued steel-springs with rollers, and foliate engraved 'French' cocks, the internal working parts polished bright, figured full stocks each with grooved spur, chequered rounded butts, oval pommels each inlaid with a border engraved oval bright steel plate, engraved blued steel mounts including border engraved spur trigger-guards (one with some surface rust and minor loss of finish on the inside) each engraved with the maker's address in an oval on a martial trophy and foliage, blued set trigger, blued turned ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrods, in little used condition throughout, with virtually all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three-way powder-flask covered in red leather, turnscrew and pricker, bullet mould, loading/cleaning rod, and two oval paper (one torn) targets serial numbered in ink to the pistols, the interior of the lid with illustrated trade label for 1814-22, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with owner's name 'Mr. Oswald, Shieldhall', the whole set in exceptional original condition 25.4 cm. barrels
With browned twist octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed in full along the top flat at the breech, the latter each with broad platinum line and platinum-lined touch-hole, grooved case-hardened tangs each engraved with foliage and incorporating the back-sight, signed case-hardened border engraved serial numbered detented locks each decorated with a martial trophy on the tail, safety-catches, rainproof pans, blued steel-springs with rollers, and foliate engraved 'French' cocks, the internal working parts polished bright, figured full stocks each with grooved spur, chequered rounded butts, oval pommels each inlaid with a border engraved oval bright steel plate, engraved blued steel mounts including border engraved spur trigger-guards (one with some surface rust and minor loss of finish on the inside) each engraved with the maker's address in an oval on a martial trophy and foliage, blued set trigger, blued turned ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrods, in little used condition throughout, with virtually all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three-way powder-flask covered in red leather, turnscrew and pricker, bullet mould, loading/cleaning rod, and two oval paper (one torn) targets serial numbered in ink to the pistols, the interior of the lid with illustrated trade label for 1814-22, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon engraved with owner's name 'Mr. Oswald, Shieldhall', the whole set in exceptional original condition 25.4 cm. barrels
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