BY DURS EGG, 1 COVENTRY STREET, HAYMARKET, LONDON, 1797

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 16-Bore Flintlock Pistols With Their Original Receipt
By Durs Egg, 1 Coventry Street, Haymarket, London, 1797
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrels signed in gold, with two gold lines at the rear of the breech, and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved case-hardened tangs, signed engraved case-hardened detented locks (one detent removed) each with stepped tail, engraved safety-catch, semi-rainproof pan, roller, blued steel-spring, and original blued finish on the internal working parts, finely figured walnut full stocks, the butts with characteristic chequering, finely engraved blued iron mounts including trigger-guards in the French manner, blued set triggers, horn fore-end caps, original horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm, and the other with powder-measure, and nearly all their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three-way flask covered in red leather, the lid with trade label for 1786-1804, and flush-fitting carrying handle engraved 'Col. R. King', London proof marks
15in. (38.1cm.)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The receipt reads: 'Received the 29th September 1797 of Colonel King the Sum of twenty one pounds, Seven Shillings, for a pr: of best Pistols in a Mahogany Case &c. complete.

£21.7- (signed) D. Egg'
Colonel R. King was probably Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Robert King who appears in the Army List on 20 December 1794 as 'late 127th Foot'. He was promoted Colonel on 1 January 1801, and last appears in the Army List in 1802

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