OUTSTANDING CASED PAIR OF DEVISME PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS.

OUTSTANDING CASED PAIR OF DEVISME PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. 50. Fantastic pair of target pistols with 9-1/2″ oct bbls, tiny dovetailed front sights with beads and a fixed rear sight mounted to tangs. They have front action locks and are mounted in 1-pc walnut half stocks with iron furniture secured with a sgl wedge through oval German silver escutcheons. Trigger guard has a finger rest with long bottom tang and decorative finial on trigger plate. It has an oval buttcap with raised diamond-shaped center and turned finial. Stocks are deep relief carved in leaf & vine patterns with a fine stippled background and have raised side panels with fleur-de-lis drops. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs, top tangs, trigger guards & buttcaps are beautifully engraved with leaf & vine patterns and a fine stippled, dark colored background. Pistols are numbered “1” and “2” respectively on breech plugs and top tangs. Accompanied by their orig green velvet lined rosewood casing with an empty brass shield centered in the lid and a mortised dbl lug lock in front with small round escutcheon. Inside lid is embossed in gold with maker’s name & Paris address. Bottom is French fitted for pistols, a fine steel nutcracker style mold with pincher sprue cutter, a rosewood handled turnscrew and a nipple wrench, a lignum vitae mallet, a color case hardened powder measure, two lignum vitae bits boxes, a lignum vitae & brass ramrod along with an ebony handled cleaning rod with jag. Right front covered compartment is empty. This is a truly magnificent set worthy of any collection. CONDITION: Extraordinarily fine. Pistols retain virtually all of their orig maker’s finish with only a few light mars in left sides of forestocks. Bbls retain glossy bright blue with all other metal French gray finished. Implements & accessories are all equally new with a few minor hammer marks on mallet. Case has a repaired crack in lid along with a few minor grain checks and retains virtually all of an outstanding professionally restored finish. 4-37475 JR327 (12,500-17,500)

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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	2434	$0.00	OUTSTANDING CASED PAIR OF DEVISME PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. 50. Fantastic pair of target pistols with 9-1/2″ oct bbls, tiny dovetailed front sights with beads and a fixed rear sight mounted to tangs. They have front action locks and are mounted in 1-pc walnut half stocks with iron furniture secured with a sgl wedge through oval German silver escutcheons. Trigger guard has a finger rest with long bottom tang and decorative finial on trigger plate. It has an oval buttcap with raised diamond-shaped center and turned finial. Stocks are deep relief carved in leaf & vine patterns with a fine stippled background and have raised side panels with fleur-de-lis drops. Lockplates, hammers, breech plugs, top tangs, trigger guards & buttcaps are beautifully engraved with leaf & vine patterns and a fine stippled, dark colored background. Pistols are numbered “1” and “2” respectively on breech plugs and top tangs. Accompanied by their orig green velvet lined rosewood casing with an empty brass shield centered in the lid and a mortised dbl lug lock in front with small round escutcheon. Inside lid is embossed in gold with maker’s name & Paris address. Bottom is French fitted for pistols, a fine steel nutcracker style mold with pincher sprue cutter, a rosewood handled turnscrew and a nipple wrench, a lignum vitae mallet, a color case hardened powder measure, two lignum vitae bits boxes, a lignum vitae & brass ramrod along with an ebony handled cleaning rod with jag. Right front covered compartment is empty. This is a truly magnificent set worthy of any collection. CONDITION: Extraordinarily fine. Pistols retain virtually all of their orig maker’s finish with only a few light mars in left sides of forestocks. Bbls retain glossy bright blue with all other metal French gray finished. Implements & accessories are all equally new with a few minor hammer marks on mallet. Case has a repaired crack in lid along with a few minor grain checks and retains virtually all of an outstanding professionally restored finish. 4-37475 JR327 (12,500-17,500) 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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