Lot Essay
John Barton worked in partnership with Robert Wogdon from 1795. He succeeded Wogdon in 1803 and is recorded working at 5 St. James's Street, Haymarket until 1819
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A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS, converted from flintlock, with twist octagonal barrels each signed on the top flat and with silver fore-sight, each breech with platinum line and struck beneath with maker's mark of Robert Wogdon, engraved tangs incorporating the back-sight, signed engraved detented bevelled locks each with safety-catch (one a working replacement), finely figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end split), chequered flat-sided walnut butts, silver mounts comprising engraved trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, butt-caps cast and chased with Britannia and rococo ornament in relief, vacant escutcheons, barrel-bolt escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, and a band at each fore-end, set triggers, and original ramrods, one with steel powder measure (the iron parts with some pitting), by John Barton, London, London silver hallmarks for 1801, maker's mark of Moses Brent
15in. (2)
15in. (2)