CASED PAIR OF HENRY TATHAM PERCUSSION DUELING PISTOLS.

CASED PAIR OF HENRY TATHAM PERCUSSION DUELING PISTOLS. Cal. 58. NSN. Spectacular pair of pistols, converted from flintlock, with 9-1/4” Damascus bbls that have raised gold appliques at muzzles & breech ends and on top tangs. Locks have stepped back edges with safeties and are very tastefully engraved with matching engraved hammers that have dolphin motifs on the spurs. Triggerguards are niter blued with pineapple finials and engraved to match. They have a steel guide with steel nose pipe each containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods. They are mounted in nicely figured, slope handled, 1-pc stocks with raised side panels & flat checkered grips with a cast, deep relief, white metal lion’s head on butts. Accompanied by their orig, burgundy velvet lined, oak casing with brass bull’s eye escutcheon/handle in lid, compartmented in bottom for pistols, a small Hawksley-style flask, an ebony handled turn screw, an ebony handled nipple wrench with pick in the butt, an ebony handled wood rammer with concealed worm and two covered compartments containing a number of cast lead balls and a cleaning jag to mount on rammer handle. There is also a compartment for a tin of caps. Inside the lid has the maker’s label. CONDITION: About very fine. Bbls retain wonderful Damascus pattern with most of the orig gold work. Lock on one pistol has been cleaned to about 50% case colors while the other has about 65%. One pistol has a hairline back of the lockplate and another at left front tip of forestock with some chipping around butt, while the other pistol has a repaired chip at the right front tip of forestock and both retain most of an extremely fine, professionally restored finish. Mechanics are fine, lightly pitted bores with a few spots of deeper pitting. Case has one loose small partition, is somewhat faded and lightly soiled, with some staining on the label, otherwise is sound, showing storage wear with some nicked corners. Flask is lightly corroded, but retains about 75% orig finish. Remainder of accessories are fine. 4-30287 JR355 (10,000-20,000)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 2007

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	84	$17,250.00	CASED PAIR OF HENRY TATHAM PERCUSSION DUELING PISTOLS. Cal. 58. NSN. Spectacular pair of pistols, converted from flintlock, with 9-1/4” Damascus bbls that have raised gold appliques at muzzles & breech ends and on top tangs. Locks have stepped back edges with safeties and are very tastefully engraved with matching engraved hammers that have dolphin motifs on the spurs. Triggerguards are niter blued with pineapple finials and engraved to match. They have a steel guide with steel nose pipe each containing their orig ebony & brass ramrods. They are mounted in nicely figured, slope handled, 1-pc stocks with raised side panels & flat checkered grips with a cast, deep relief, white metal lion’s head on butts. Accompanied by their orig, burgundy velvet lined, oak casing with brass bull’s eye escutcheon/handle in lid, compartmented in bottom for pistols, a small Hawksley-style flask, an ebony handled turn screw, an ebony handled nipple wrench with pick in the butt, an ebony handled wood rammer with concealed worm and two covered compartments containing a number of cast lead balls and a cleaning jag to mount on rammer handle. There is also a compartment for a tin of caps. Inside the lid has the maker’s label. CONDITION: About very fine. Bbls retain wonderful Damascus pattern with most of the orig gold work. Lock on one pistol has been cleaned to about 50% case colors while the other has about 65%. One pistol has a hairline back of the lockplate and another at left front tip of forestock with some chipping around butt, while the other pistol has a repaired chip at the right front tip of forestock and both retain most of an extremely fine, professionally restored finish. Mechanics are fine, lightly pitted bores with a few spots of deeper pitting. Case has one loose small partition, is somewhat faded and lightly soiled, with some staining on the label, otherwise is sound, showing storage wear with some nicked corners. Flask is lightly corroded, but retains about 75% orig finish. Remainder of accessories are fine. 4-30287 JR355 (10,000-20,000) Auction: Firearms - Spring 2007 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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