A Fine Cased Pair of Over & Under Percussion Howdah Pistols by Rodda. 12” overall, 6”16 bore over & under smooth bore barrels with London Proofs, engraved on the top flat ‘R.B. Rodda & Co. Piccadilly London’. Swivel ramrod, scroll engraved action, hammers, double triggers trigger guard, butt cap & sighted tang. Tang numbered ‘1647’ & ‘1648’. Finely checkered walnut grip with silver wrist escutcheon, butt with cap trap. In their original fitted walnut case with some accessories including powder flask, bullet mould, turn screw, nipple key, loading rod & oil bottle.
Circa 1853
High quality officers pistols in good condition.
Richard Burrows Rodda joined Brown, Cooper and Rodda 1830, at Cooper & Rodda1846, R.B. Rodda & Co. based at 36, Piccadilly, London1847, & Calcutta at 5 ½ Tank Square, 1860 renamed Dalhousie Square in 1872, become 7 & 8 Dalhousie Square. In 1857 Richard Burrows Rodda left India & migrated to the United States, taken over by William Henry Taylor, who was the brother of Rodda’s brother in law. Opened in Birmingham 1903, at 50, Stafford Street. Still in business in 1940.