CASED PAIR OF ROBINEAU PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS.

CASED PAIR OF ROBINEAU PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 46. Pistols are identical with 10″ round bbls that have integral flat top ribs. They have small dovetailed front sights with fixed rear sights on top tangs. They are mounted in 1-pc French walnut half stocks with leaf & vine relief carved tips that have fine stippled background. Butts are fluted with commensurately fluted diamond shaped buttcaps with turned finials. Lockplates are front action with a stepped tails and inlaid in flat gold in an arc around hammers “ROBINEAU ARQ A AGEN”. Lockplates, hammers, trigger guards, buttplates, breech plugs and top tangs are lightly engraved in foliate arabesque patterns and have French gray finish. Trigger guards have a flared bow with finger rests and elaborate trigger plate finials. Trigger bows are inlaid in flat gold with a crown. Accompanied by their orig rosewood casing with brass wire inlay edges and engraved brass corners with two lighter colored wood borders. Center of lid has a cloud shaped plate engraved in period scrip “LC”. Front of case has a mortised brass lock with two locking studs. Interior is green felt lined and French fitted in bottom for pistols, a sgl cavity nutcracker ball mold with sprue cutter, a smooth bag-shaped flask which is probably a replacement, a rosewood handled turnscrew/nipple wrench, missing its screw-on cap, an ebony mallet, an ebony handle with turned decorations for the decorative steel lead ladle, a brass & rosewood cleaning rod, a worm & a brush with a rosewood bits box and a rosewood covered pewter oil bottle. Cover for right front compartment is missing. CONDITION: Fine. Bbls retain glossy orig blue with some minor flaking on one bbl and the other moderately flaked. Stocks are sound with minor nicks & scratches and retain most of their orig varnish. Mechanics are fine, strong bright bores with minor pitting. Case has a repaired crack in the lid and retains most of a professionally restored finish. Interior is lightly to moderately faded with light soil. Implements are fine. 4-37633 JR333 (3,000-5,000)

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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	2435	$6,900.00	CASED PAIR OF ROBINEAU PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. About 46. Pistols are identical with 10″ round bbls that have integral flat top ribs. They have small dovetailed front sights with fixed rear sights on top tangs. They are mounted in 1-pc French walnut half stocks with leaf & vine relief carved tips that have fine stippled background. Butts are fluted with commensurately fluted diamond shaped buttcaps with turned finials. Lockplates are front action with a stepped tails and inlaid in flat gold in an arc around hammers “ROBINEAU ARQ A AGEN”. Lockplates, hammers, trigger guards, buttplates, breech plugs and top tangs are lightly engraved in foliate arabesque patterns and have French gray finish. Trigger guards have a flared bow with finger rests and elaborate trigger plate finials. Trigger bows are inlaid in flat gold with a crown. Accompanied by their orig rosewood casing with brass wire inlay edges and engraved brass corners with two lighter colored wood borders. Center of lid has a cloud shaped plate engraved in period scrip “LC”. Front of case has a mortised brass lock with two locking studs. Interior is green felt lined and French fitted in bottom for pistols, a sgl cavity nutcracker ball mold with sprue cutter, a smooth bag-shaped flask which is probably a replacement, a rosewood handled turnscrew/nipple wrench, missing its screw-on cap, an ebony mallet, an ebony handle with turned decorations for the decorative steel lead ladle, a brass & rosewood cleaning rod, a worm & a brush with a rosewood bits box and a rosewood covered pewter oil bottle. Cover for right front compartment is missing. CONDITION: Fine. Bbls retain glossy orig blue with some minor flaking on one bbl and the other moderately flaked. Stocks are sound with minor nicks & scratches and retain most of their orig varnish. Mechanics are fine, strong bright bores with minor pitting. Case has a repaired crack in the lid and retains most of a professionally restored finish. Interior is lightly to moderately faded with light soil. Implements are fine. 4-37633 JR333 (3,000-5,000) 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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