A Fine Cased Pair Of Viennese 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistols

A Fine Cased Pair Of Viennese 54-Bore Percussion Target Pistols By M. Nowotny In Wien, Circa 1850 With browned twist sighted barrels each of octagonal section at the muzzle, signed in capitals and numbered '1' and '2' respectively along the top flat, and rifled with twelve bright spiral grooves, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breeched and tangs, the former each with pierced platinum plug, the latter each with blued adjustable back-sight and numbered '1' and '2' in gold respectively, border engraved case-hardened locks and hammers decorated with foliate scrollwork, the former each signed in capitals, highly figured half-stocks each carved with foliage in relief against a stippled ground on the fore-end (one with minor old bruising), stamped 'F. Krahl' on the inside, and with fluted butt, border engraved case-hardened mounts comprising shaped side-plates and pommel-caps, spur trigger-guards and trigger-plates all decorated en suite with the locks, vacant white-metal escutcheons, damascus steel barrel-bolt escutcheons, bright adjustable set triggers, and retaining virtually all their original finish: in original lined and fitted walnut-veneered case (locks missing) with accessories (two missing) including circular white-metal mounted horn powder-flask and steel bullet mould, the exterior of the lid (old central split) with circular vacant white-metal escutcheon 21.5 cm. barrels Footnotes: Mathias Nowotny is recorded in Leitmeitz, Bohemia and Vienna, Austria between about 1825 and the year of his death in 1856 This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing