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HENRY TATHAM, LONDON
A GOOD PAIR OF 14-BORE PERCUSSION 'MAN-STOPPER' BELT-PISTOLS, numbered 607,
circa 1850, with round browned 6in. barrels, carved raised concave sighting ribs signed 'HENRY TATHAM 37 CHARING CROSS, LONDON', bead fore-sights, standing notch rear-sights, border engraved breech-blocks (traces of colour, screwed plugs), carved snails, fully engraved top-tangs, border and scroll engraved back-action locks signed 'HENRY TATHAM', sliding safes behind the scroll engraved dolphin-headed hammers, narrow border and scroll engraved sideplates with blued spring-steel belt-hooks, finely chequered walnut grips with domed iron butt-caps with central traps, oval escutcheons to wrists with the numbers stamped in wood above, full-length under-ribs and captive iron stirrup ramrods
Other Notes: These pistols are the work of Henry Tatham Junior, who operated at this address between 1834-60
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Estimate £1,200-1,600