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A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with octagonal twist barrels each signed in gold and with gold fore-sight, the breeches with engraved gold band and gold-lined touch-hole, engraved tangs, flat bevelled locks signed in gold and with rollers and gold-lined semi-rainproof pans (top of both cocks missing), figured walnut full stocks (fore-ends damaged), chequered butts (one broken) apart from a plain strip down each side, engraved iron mounts including spurred trigger-guards, silver escutcheons engraved with an M, a ducal coronet above, and one original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (surface rust throughout over some original finish), by John Manton, London, No.2290 for 1795
16¼in. (2)
16¼in. (2)