Offered here is a beautiful cased pair of Richards of London large smooth bore, Damascus percussion dueling pistols with accessories. Rarely are these high quality British pistols found in museum worthy condition. The top barrel flats are marked "RICHARDS, LONDON," and the lock plates are marked "RICHARDS." The sights are fixed. The actions are equipped with engraved sliding hammer safeties and vented platinum blow out plugs. A floral scroll engraving is featured on the fish embellished hammers, lock plates, barrel tangs, breech plugs and trigger guards. The trigger guards have pineapple finials. The pistols have swivel iron ramrods with engraved hardware. The nicely figured full length stocks have checkering on the grip area, smooth forearms, German silver thumb and barrel wedge escutcheons. The barrels are browned Damascus, the trigger guards are blued, and the remaining metal surfaces are casehardened. The partitioned mahogany cased has a bone key hole escutcheon and blank brass initial plaque on the exterior of the lid.

Excellent. The barrel retains nearly 95% original brown Damascus with spots of dark corrosion visible near the muzzle. The trigger guard retains 97% original blue finish. The remaining metal surfaces retain 95% original case colors. The stock is excellent with a bruise on the left flat, a barely noticeable hairline crack near the barrel tang and some minor handling marks. The checkering is crisp. The case is fine with minor handling/storage marks and worn lining. Mechanically excellent.

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Excellent. The barrel retains 97% plus original brown Damascus minor loss at the blow out plug (area cleaned). The trigger guard retains 98% bright original high polish blue finish. The remaining metal surfaces retain 97% plus original case colors. The stock is excellent with some scattered minor handling marks and retains most of the finish. The checkering is crisp. Mechanically excellent. A beautiful set of cased British dueling pistols that are the envy of most, if not all, antique firearm collectors.