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| Maker(s): | Unknown | | Culture: | Belgian
| | Title: | Pocket Pistol
| | Type: | Armament
| | Place Made: | Europe; Belgium; Liege
| | Measurements: | overall: 7 1/8 in; 18.0975 cm
| | Accession Number: | MH SK L.B.2.29
| | Credit Line: | Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
| | Museum Collection: | The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
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Description: A Belgian double barrel, double action, percussion cap pocket pistol. 3" round barrels with four inside straight grooves extending in about 1/4" from muzzle. Center fire hammers, one straight and one curved trigger, wide trigger guard, walnut flat curved butt. Scroll design engraved on both sides of lock plate. On the barrel is the Belgian proof mark of an oval surrounding ELG and a star. Superintendent's mark N very faint on the barrel. Weight: 13 ozs
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