‡ A 16 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOL BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND STREET, LON…

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‡ A 16 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOL BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, NO. 520,

‡ A 16 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOL BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, NO. 520, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with signed browned twist octagonal sighted barrel, engraved case-hardened breech decorated with a scallop shell and inlaid with a platinum line, pierced platinum plug, foliate scroll-engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, signed scroll-engraved flush-fitting flat lock fitted with bolt safety-catch and hammer en suite, full stock, engraved blued steel mounts including numbered trigger-guard decorated with scrolls, belt hook with engraved terminal, stirrup ramrod with engraved links, vacant white metal escutcheon and white metal barrel bolt escutcheons, 13.0 cm barrel

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‡ A 16 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOL BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, 170 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, NO. 520,

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A PAIR OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH 16 BORE MAN STOPPER PERCUSSION PISTOLS

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