Pair of saddle pistols fetched $1.8m
USA : It was no surprise that the star lot in a star-studded Americana sale at Christie’s New York on January 18 and 19 was the Lafayette-Washington pair of saddle pistols which fetched $1.8m (£1,285,715) and established a new world auction record for a firearm.
Bearing the mark of Jacob Walster of Saarbruck, France, the steel-mounted pistols were owned by thre…