A FINE CASED PAIR OF 32-BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS

BY JOHN DICKSON & SON, 63 PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH, NOS. 4499 AND 4500 FOR 1892

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A FINE CASED PAIR OF 32-BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS
By John Dickson & Son, 63 Princes Street, Edinburgh, Nos. 4499 and 4500 for 1892
With browned barrels signed in full, brass fore-sights, scroll engraved case-hardened patent breeches each with two gold lines engraved with a guilloche pattern, gold-lined touch-holes, scroll engraved case-hardened tangs incorporating the back-sights, numbered respectively '1' and '2', and inlaid with a gold line matching the lines on the breeches, signed case-hardened detented border engraved locks finely decorated with scrollwork and each with roller, blued steel-spring, engraved steel, blued safety-catch, and swept gold-lined rainproof pan, finely figured walnut full stocks, chequered butts, finely engraved iron mounts, blued serial numbered trigger-guards, case-hardened scroll engraved pommel-caps, case-hardened trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, gold escutcheons, two blued engraved barrel-bolts each with engraved case-hardened escutcheon, original brass-mounted ramrods, and nearly all their original finish: in original brass-bound oak case fitted in the French manner and lined in green baize, with accessories including two Hawksley powder-flasks, the lid with stamped and gilt leather trade label, London proof marks
16¼in. (40.3cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Completed on 31 March 1892 as a 'pair of best singles 32-bore round barrel' for the famous Scottish eccentric Charles Gordon, who commissioned many muzzle-loading firearms at the turn of the 19th century, mainly from Dicksons, and like most of his firearms, hardly ever used. The last muzzle-loader made by Dicksons for Charles Gordon was a percussion rifle completed on 29 February 1904

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