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Necessary box of pistols of combat or shooting. Made...

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Necessary box of pistols of combat or shooting. Made of varnished oak, with inlaid brass handle, lined inside with burgundy velvet (unstained). It contains a pair of percussion combat pistols, of officer. Smooth barrels, about 8 mm caliber, with thunderbolts, signed "Wilson London". Signed back plates and flat-bodied hammers finely engraved with foliate scrolls. Bridges decorated in continuation. Iron trigger tails on stirrups. Beautiful veined walnut mounts with redon crossbars, barrel tips and pommels with nickel silver fittings. With composite accessories: a bullet mold, a metal powder flask, a cleaning rod with its tips, a capsule box (key missing). Length: 35,3 cm - Box: 23 x 43 x Height: 7 cmA .B.E. (put back in color, small accident to a pommel, a hammer redone, accident to the lid of the box) . Around 1840 / 1850.