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‡ A PAIR OF 50 BORE OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK TAP-ACTION PISTOLS BY DUNDERDALE, MABSON & LABRON, BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1810 each with turn-off barrel, engraved action decorated with a trophy-of-arms on the right, fitted with tap lever and signed above a bouquet on the left, sliding safety-catch also locking the steel, flat-sided figured walnut butt, iron trigger-guard decorated with a rococo bouquet, and vacant silver escutcheon, 21.0 cm overall (2) Provenance Michael German, 1978 These makers are recorded as gunmakers and factors at 25 Russell Street, Birmingham, circa 1807-21.
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‡ A PAIR OF 50 BORE OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK TAP-ACTION PISTOLS BY DUNDERDALE, MABSON & LABRON, BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1810 each with turn-off barrel, engraved action decorated with a trophy-of-arms on the right, fitted with tap lever and signed above a bouquet on the left, sliding safety-catch also locking the steel, flat-sided figured walnut butt, iron trigger-guard decorated with a rococo bouquet, and vacant silver escutcheon, 21.0 cm overall (2) Provenance Michael German, 1978 These makers are recorded as gunmakers and factors at 25 Russell Street, Birmingham, circa 1807-21.
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