A cased pair of target percussion pistols

dating: Mid 19th Century provenance: France, Octagonal, rifled, 8 mm cal. barrels, with fore-sight, with 60% of antique finishing, breeches engraved with rinceaux and numbers '1' and '2' inlaid in gold, provided with a piston with spark arrester. Engraved tangs, numbered en suite, with fix rear sight. Forward spring locks with finely engraved rinceaux and frames at the borders, both with well working mechanics. Wooden butts with grooved grips with fullers, chiselled with rinceaux in the front part. Iron mounts, trigger-guards engraved with rinceaux and finished, butt-plates with cusps with knots. In their wooden case, lined with green cloth inside, complete with almost all the tools (maybe only one is missing), among which the three flasks, a hammer, bullet mold and colanders, etc. The cover with oblique borders and a brass plaque, provided with a foldaway handle and two, engraved initials. length 34 cm.