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A FINE CASED PAIR OF 30-BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOLS
BY DURS EGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1800
With rebrowned twist barrels signed in gold on the rib and with silver fore-sights, the breeches with gold lines and gold-lined touch-holes, engraved grooved case-hardened tangs, signed and engraved case-hardened bevelled locks each with safety-catch, roller, and semi-rainproof pan, figured walnut half-stocks, the butts cut with characteristic chequering, blued iron mounts including trigger-guards in the French taste each engraved with a trophy of arms, horn-tipped wooden ramrods, one with worm (the other replaced), and much original finish: in contemporary fitted brass-bound mahogany case lined in green velvet, with bullet mould and turnscrew, the lid with trade label of H.W. Mortimer & Son & T. Mortimer 89 Fleet Street, London for circa 1800-1807, and circular escutcheon engraved 'Sir Harford Jones Bar.t', London proof marks
14¾in.
