A FINE CASED PAIR OF FRENCH PERCUSSION DUELLING TARGET PISTOLS

A FINE CASED PAIR OF FRENCH PERCUSSION DUELLING TARGET PISTOLS
BY LE PAGE, PARIS, SERIAL NO. 3512, DATED '1834'
With browned sighted rifled barrels each signed 'Le Page Arq.er du Roi' and respectively numbered '1' and '2' in gold, case-hardened patent breeches, case-hardened border and scroll engraved tangs and signed detented back-action locks, the former respectively numbered '1' and '2' in gold, highly figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts each with hardwood pommel carved in low relief with foliage, case-hardened border and scroll engraved mounts including spurred trigger-guards, set triggers, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and retaining nearly all their original finish throughout, in original brass-bound burr walnut veneered close-fitted case, lined with dark purple velvet and Morocco leather, with accessories including pistol-flask, loading-mallet, and combined turnscrew/nipple wrench, with original brown leather outer cover
(Pistols) 15 in. (38 cm.) overall
Barrels dated on the underside and marked 'Acier Fondu' on the top flat