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A RARE PAIR OF .600 CALIBRE HANOVERIAN MODEL
1818/43 RIFLED PERCUSSION CAVALRY PISTOLS, NO.
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each with rebrowned tapering sighted 11Din barrel rifled
with eight grooves, case-hardened breech tang
incorporating the back-sight, stepped bevelled lock fitted
with bolt safety catch passing through from the opposite
side and acting on the neck of the hammer, figured
walnut full stock impressed with the mark ‘TS’ conjoined
opposite the lock, the spine of the butt with a numbered
pierced plate for the shoulder stock, regulation brass
mounts comprising flush-fitted side-plate stamped ‘K.G.2’,
trigger-guard stamped en suite with the stock, butt-cap,
and fore-end cap, and with no provision for a ramrod,
complete with numbered detachable butt stamped en
suite with the stock and ‘K.G.2’, with its saddle bar with
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two rings, and with an associated ramrod complete with
clip-on belt suspension, the tip impressed ‘I.C.9’, and
remaining in very good condition throughout
43.1cm; 17in pistol without butt
Provenance:
The Konigsgendarmerie of 1866.
Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden, inv. nos. 1323, 1353,
1457, 1458.
Schloss Marienburg
See U. Volmer 1978, p. 83, no. 22.
£3000-4000
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