4420 PR. JAMES PURDEY DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION PISTOLS

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[?]Live Online Auction Starts In 2025 May 11 @ 10:00 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Category Firearms & Military
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Start Price 3,000.00 USD
Estimated at 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
IN VERY FINE ORIGINAL CONDITION. Cal. 65 (both). S# 4046 & 4047 (sold 1845). The 8" damascus barrel sets are engraved "J. Purdey 314 1/2 Oxford Street. London." on narrow top ribs. S#'s and London black powder proofs are on bottoms of barrels and each set is fitted with bridled swiveling steel ramrod. Case hardened breeches are not vented nor do they have blow outs and have platinum lines at rears. Breech irons are engraved with open scroll. Back spring peninsula percussion locks are fitted with round bodied serpentine hammers and have back sliding safetys. Some scroll engraving is on lockplates along with Purdey name and address. Trigger plates have stylized pineapple finials. Trigger guards are engraved with open scroll on bows; S#s are on tangs. Ebonized walnut stocks have flared checkered grips. Grip caps are steel and have feather engraved spring loaded trap covers. Stocks attach to barrels with captive sidebolts through oval silver escutcheons. CONDITION: very fine. Barrels retaining over 90% original dark brown with some high edge wear and a few scratches. Over 70% case hardening color remains on other iron parts, except trigger guards which show over 70% of their bright blue. Stocks are very fine retaining nearly all of their black lacquer finish with a fair number scratches and marks found on both guns. Bores are bright and shiny. Locks are crisp. Safetys work. These guns are listed in the "Early Purdeys" as being extant, sold in 1845, presently in the USA. Donald Dallas in "James Purdey & Sons" relates that 161 double barrel pistols are found in the Purdey records. Consignor states this pair of pistols was made for Sir John Hobhouse, a British politician. (01-26464/MGM). ANTIQUE. $6,000-10,000.