Product Details
A CASED PAIR OF .650 PERCUSSION OFFICER'S PISTOLS SIGNED HUTCHINS, LONDON, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1850, with 7 3/4in. round barrels with flat sighting planes signed 'HUTCHINS, LONDON', bead fore-sights, standing notch rear-sights to the engraved top-tangs, shallow fenced snails, borderline and scroll engraved colour hardened locks signed 'HUTCHINS' on the bars, scroll engraved hammers with rear safes, walnut full-stocks with chequered bag-shaped grips, armourials engraved to the rectangular clipped-corner wrist escutcheons, plain triggers, iron furniture and captive iron ramrods, strong traces of finish and colour to both pistols; together with an expertly reproduced case lined and compartmented in blue baize, a number of added period accessories and a reproduction 'Edward Whistler' trade-label
Provenance: John Hutchins traded from 39 Union Street, Lambeth from around 1841 until moving to 44 Bloomsbury Street in 1859. He remained at this address until 1862 when he moved for a final time to 44 Frith Street, staying at this address until his retirement in 1865
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Estimate £1,500-2,000