Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2017 : Sale A0917 Lot 597
A CASED PAIR OF 180-BORE PERCUSSION BRASS-BODIED MUFF-PISTOLS OF SMALL SIZE, UNSIGNED, no visible serial numbers,

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A CASED PAIR OF 180-BORE PERCUSSION BRASS-BODIED MUFF-PISTOLS OF SMALL SIZE, UNSIGNED, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1840, with round iron turn-off 1 1/2in. barrels, engraved bands at the muzzles, rounded borderline and scroll engraved frames with central dolphin-headed hammers and automatic concealed triggers, finely chequered walnut bag-shaped butts with white-metal lionshead mask butt-caps and initialled oval escutcheons to wrists, complete with a period mahogany brass cornered case adapted for these pistols and containing a cap-tin and miniature flask

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Estimate £700-900