An Exceptional Pair Of Cased 35-Bore Percussion Rifled Duelling Pistols

By Sam.l & C. Smith, Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 4041 For 1827

With browned damascus twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed in full along the top flat, engraved with owner's name 'Count John Tyszkiewicz' along the bottom left flat and rifled with nine wide grooves, blued sights, case-hardened octagonal breeches each with three platinum lines and pierced platinum plug, the latter centred on engraved foliage, foliate engraved case-hardened tangs, case-hardened border engraved flat detented locks each signed in full and decorated with scrolling foliage, dolphin hammers en suite and each with blued threaded striker, engraved blued safety-catches, highly figured half-stocks with finely chequered rounded butts, the latter each with border engraved silver cap part silver hallmarked for London and decorated with foliage and a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, blued trigger-guards each with serial number in an oval within foliage on the border engraved bow, case-hardened trigger-plates each with foliate engraved finial, blued set triggers, vacant silver escutcheons, barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps, original horn-tipped ramrods, one with steel worm under a threaded brass cap, the other with brass powder-measure, and in virtually unused condition: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories comprising brass-mounted three-way powder-flask covered in red leather, combined ramrod/mallet with threaded leather-faced head, nipple-wrench with threaded pricker and steel bullet mould, the interior of the lid with earlier W. Smith trade label for 1817-1820, the exterior (some old scratches) with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, the whole set in exceptional condition, London proof marks
23.7 cm. barrels