Gentlemen"s Week A set of fine well preserved boxed iron-mounted half-stock percussion pistols by Faure Lepage circa 1855. The pistols have Gothic stocks, engraved locks integrated with the wood held by a single screw with washer marked FAURE LEPAGE ARQr A PARIS, engraved trigger guards with finger rest, approx. 24.5 cm. long octagonal tip-off barrels in calibre approx. 11.2 mm. rifled with 8 grooves marked as the lock. The mahogany case is lined with violet velvet and on the inside of the lid is FAURELE-PAGE 8. RUE DE RICHELIEU in gold. In the box two ramrods, a cleaning rod, a bullet hammer, a combined piston wrench and screwdriver, a bullet mould for a round bullets with a cutter, a copper powder bottle with a dosing device marked LEPAGE A PARIS, two spare pistons, a brass spoon and a key to the lock. (1) This lot is part of our theme:
The barrels with c 70 % preserved colour.