Product Details
J. B. RONGE, LIEGE
A FINE CASED PAIR OF DELUXE 12mm PERCUSSION CONTINENTAL TARGET PISTOLS, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1845, with blued octagonal 10 1/4in. rifled barrels, each flat with a carved and moulded blind flute, the top-flats marked in gilt script 'J.B. RONGE FILS A LIEGE' and 'CANON ACIER FONDU' across the barrel at breech (small losses to gilding on one), breech-blocks engraved with scrolled and bordered panels 'in the white', moulded nipple-bosses (some pitting to inner faces), dove-tailed bead fore-sights, adjustable notch rear-sights on the fully engraved top-tangs, border and scroll engraved hump-backed locks with dipped tails, en-suite hammers, ebonised half-stocks relief-carved with raised floral scrollwork to the grips and fore-end tips (one pistol cracked through and well repaired at wrist), engraved and moulded butt-caps with central spires, spurred complex trigger guard bows with skeletal mounts, gilt metal oval barrel-key escutcheons, both pistols with much finish remaining (some spotting to barrels) and in an unsigned brass fretwork inlaid ebonised wood case lined and compartmented in the Continental manner in red velvet (some fading), retaining a lidded corner compartment with turned ebony handle and a full suite of original deluxe accessories including a spirally carved ebony loading mallet, en-suite handled tools, panelled powder flask (mainspring at fault), carved steel mould and loading rods, the exterior with central lock (no key)
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Estimate £7,000-9,000