A pair of pocket pistols

(shortbows), cap-shaped, box-shaped
bronze, steel, walnut wood; overall length 173 and 175 mm, weight - 220 and 234 g;
Europe, Belgium, Liege. 2nd quarter of the 19th century.
Barrels-length. 173 and 175 mm, cal. 12 mm, octagonal, round at the exit, slightly expanded and reinforced with profiled rings, not threaded. Without sighting instruments. Cast in bronze in its entirety with the breech chamber and flask frame. On the rear, lower part of the barrels is stamped the control mark of the city of Liege - the letters L.E.G. above a star in an oval frame. Above the cartridge chambers are hemispherical shells with upward-facing cap covers, with chimneys (pistons) for caps placed in them.
So-called "box" cap locks. Lock chambers rectangular, in the form of a box, decorated on the sides with a modest ornament in the form of a wavy serpentine. Cocks placed centrally on the back of the weapon, just behind the pan with chimneys for caps. Walnut wood flasks, flat, moled on the side surfaces of the grips in a diagonal checkered pattern and decorated with a motif of a radial half sun. Steel trigger guards, wide, flat, attached to the lower walls of the breech chambers.