An Uncommon Best Quality Magazine In Butt Percussion Travelling Pistol by W & J Rigby.
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9 ¾” overall, 4 ½” 20 bore round barrel with U shaped sighting groove engraved ‘Dublin'. Two platinum lines at engraved breech. Flat engraved lockplate signed ‘W & J Rigby’, flat curved dolphin headed hammer. Lock with safe carry, half cock & full cock. Numbered on all parts 9934, with unusual lock retaining screw from right hand side. Walnut full stock with chequered butt, steel butt cap, magazine lid lifting to reveal holes with three bullets, engraved trigger guard with pineapple finial and swivel ramrod.
Numbered 9934 Circa 1848.
Best quality pistol in very good condition. Retaining nearly all original finish.
W. & J. Rigby, 24 Suffolk Street, Dublin, 1831-1897.
One of a pair made for H. Dillon. See D.H.L. Back, ‘Great Irish Gunmaker's, Messrs Rigby 1760-1869’, 1992, plates 26,27 for similar.