WONDERFUL CASED PAIR OF REPASSIN A. BERGERAC PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS.

WONDERFUL CASED PAIR OF REPASSIN A. BERGERAC PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 52. Beautiful cased pair of French target pistols with 9-1/2″ oct Damascus bbls that have tiny dovetailed front sights and fixed rear sights. They have front action locks with stepped tails. They are mounted in 1-pc French walnut half stocks with leaf & vine relief carved forestocks and fluted grips with matching fluted buttcaps with raised diamond centers and turned, pointed finials. Trigger guards have finger rests with decorative finials on trigger plates. Stocks are secured with a sgl wedge through oval German silver escutcheons. Left side flats of bbls are stamped with Belgian “ELG” proof. Pistols are engraved with maker’s name on each lockplate and are engraved identically with shell & foliate arabesque patterns with a dbl chip border. Hammers, trigger guards & buttcaps are engraved to match. Accompanied by their orig mahogany casing with brass corners and a cloud shaped plate in center of lid engraved in period script “Gral Minot”. Interior is lined in royal blue velvet, compartment in bottom for pistols, a sgl cavity nutcracker ball mold, a foliate repoussed dbl sided flask, a rosewood handled turnscrew/nipple wrench, a rosewood mallet, a rosewood & brass ramrod and another rosewood & brass ramrod/cleaning rod with concealed worm. Covered front compartment contains two empty tins for Goldmarks caps. Also accompanied by a framed letter, in French, from Lt. Col. Paul Malmassari of the French Army regarding the military service of Gen. Emmanuel Adolphe Minot who served in the southwest of France 1877-1883. Col. Malmassari speculates that it was likely during this time that Gen. Minot purchased these pistols. PROVENANCE: Peter Wainwright Collection. CONDITION: Pistols appear to be new & unfired retaining about all of their orig bright metal finish. One stock has a chip by bbl channel, otherwise wood is sound with minor handling & storage marks and retain about all of their orig factory finish. Case has a couple of grain checks in lid, otherwise is sound and retains most of its orig finish with light handling & storage marks. Interior is lightly faded in bottom with very light soil. Accessories are very fine. 4-38219 JR332 (16,000-20,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2009

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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	2433	$0.00	WONDERFUL CASED PAIR OF REPASSIN A. BERGERAC PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 52. Beautiful cased pair of French target pistols with 9-1/2″ oct Damascus bbls that have tiny dovetailed front sights and fixed rear sights. They have front action locks with stepped tails. They are mounted in 1-pc French walnut half stocks with leaf & vine relief carved forestocks and fluted grips with matching fluted buttcaps with raised diamond centers and turned, pointed finials. Trigger guards have finger rests with decorative finials on trigger plates. Stocks are secured with a sgl wedge through oval German silver escutcheons. Left side flats of bbls are stamped with Belgian “ELG” proof. Pistols are engraved with maker’s name on each lockplate and are engraved identically with shell & foliate arabesque patterns with a dbl chip border. Hammers, trigger guards & buttcaps are engraved to match. Accompanied by their orig mahogany casing with brass corners and a cloud shaped plate in center of lid engraved in period script “Gral Minot”. Interior is lined in royal blue velvet, compartment in bottom for pistols, a sgl cavity nutcracker ball mold, a foliate repoussed dbl sided flask, a rosewood handled turnscrew/nipple wrench, a rosewood mallet, a rosewood & brass ramrod and another rosewood & brass ramrod/cleaning rod with concealed worm. Covered front compartment contains two empty tins for Goldmarks caps. Also accompanied by a framed letter, in French, from Lt. Col. Paul Malmassari of the French Army regarding the military service of Gen. Emmanuel Adolphe Minot who served in the southwest of France 1877-1883. Col. Malmassari speculates that it was likely during this time that Gen. Minot purchased these pistols. PROVENANCE: Peter Wainwright Collection. CONDITION: Pistols appear to be new & unfired retaining about all of their orig bright metal finish. One stock has a chip by bbl channel, otherwise wood is sound with minor handling & storage marks and retain about all of their orig factory finish. Case has a couple of grain checks in lid, otherwise is sound and retains most of its orig finish with light handling & storage marks. Interior is lightly faded in bottom with very light soil. Accessories are very fine. 4-38219 JR332 (16,000-20,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2009 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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