A SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with signed octagonal sighted barrel decorated with a line of gold beadwork at the breech, gold-lined touch-hole, and brass fore-sight, the tang engraved with foliage, signed detented bevelled lock with roller, the safety-catch also locking the steel (cock replaced), figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, the butt cut with pineapple chequering, finely chased silver mounts, including spurred pommel with stepped cap and trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons (one loose), and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (steel parts with some light pitting), by John Twigg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1785, maker's mark of Moses Brent | Christie's

Lot 69

A SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with signed octagonal sighted barrel decorated with a line of gold beadwork at the breech, gold-lined touch-hole, and brass fore-sight, the tang engraved with foliage, signed detented bevelled lock with roller, the safety-catch also locking the steel (cock replaced), figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, the butt cut with pineapple chequering, finely chased silver mounts, including spurred pommel with stepped cap and trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons (one loose), and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (steel parts with some light pitting), by John Twigg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1785, maker's mark of Moses Brent

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A SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL with signed octagonal sighted barrel decorated with a line of gold beadwork at the breech, gold-lined touch-hole, and brass fore-sight, the tang engraved with foliage, signed detented bevelled lock with roller, the safety-catch also locking the steel (cock replaced), figured walnut full stock carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, the butt cut with pineapple chequering, finely chased silver mounts, including spurred pommel with stepped cap and trigger-guard with pineapple finial, set trigger, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons (one loose), and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod (steel parts with some light pitting), by John Twigg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1785, maker's mark of Moses Brent
16¼in.

Lot Essay

Cf. a very similar pair of pistols by the same maker with silver hallmarks for 1784, illustrated and discussed in W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, pp. 52-3, pls.129-132

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