Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2018 : Sale A0318 Lot 571
VAN WART & SON & Co, LONDON A 32-BORE PERCUSSION PAKTONG-MOUNTED LONG-BARRELLED RIFLED SASH-PISTOL, no visible serial number,

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VAN WART & SON & Co, LONDON
A 32-BORE PERCUSSION PAKTONG-MOUNTED LONG-BARRELLED RIFLED SASH-PISTOL, no visible serial number,
circa 1840, with rifled 6in. octagonal barrel signed in script on the top-flat 'LONDON', bead fore-sight, white-metal band at breech, shaped paktong action-body with border and acanthus-leaf engraving, the top of breech signed 'VAN WART & SON & CO', fully fenced snail, engraved dolphin-headed iron side-hammer, chequered walnut bag-shaped butt, paktong butt-cap with central iron trapdoor, oval escutcheon to wrist, paktong under-barrel rib with captive iron stirrup ramrod and concealed folding trigger

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Estimate £300-500