Offered here is a beautiful cased set 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. The accessories include: a screwdriver, a nipple wrench, a bullet mold marked "No 14" and "WD," a three-cavity Skyes powder flask, ramrod/bore rod, percussion caps and lead balls.

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