A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with swamped browned octagonal sighted barrels each with crowned gold-lined maker's stamp in front of the back-sight and stamped registration number 'H124' on the side, single gold line, and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tangs, signed case-hardened bevelled detented locks with rollers, figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked), chequered flat-sided butts, blued steel mounts including finely engraved trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original ramrods, one with steel powder measure, and some original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case, probably original, with accessories including three-way flask covered in mottled leather, the lid (repaired) with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Twigg & Bass, London, circa 1790 | Christie's

Lot 82

A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with swamped browned octagonal sighted barrels each with crowned gold-lined maker's stamp in front of the back-sight and stamped registration number 'H124' on the side, single gold line, and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tangs, signed case-hardened bevelled detented locks with rollers, figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked), chequered flat-sided butts, blued steel mounts including finely engraved trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original ramrods, one with steel powder measure, and some original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case, probably original, with accessories including three-way flask covered in mottled leather, the lid (repaired) with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Twigg & Bass, London, circa 1790

Details

A PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with swamped browned octagonal sighted barrels each with crowned gold-lined maker's stamp in front of the back-sight and stamped registration number 'H124' on the side, single gold line, and gold-lined touch-hole, finely engraved tangs, signed case-hardened bevelled detented locks with rollers, figured walnut full stocks (one fore-end cracked), chequered flat-sided butts, blued steel mounts including finely engraved trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, original ramrods, one with steel powder measure, and some original finish: in lined and fitted mahogany case, probably original, with accessories including three-way flask covered in mottled leather, the lid (repaired) with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Twigg & Bass, London, circa 1790
15 1/8in.

Literature

Wilfrid Ward, 'Duels & Duelling', p. 449
'British Pistol Duelling and its Weapons', p. 18

Lot Essay

Duelling pistols by this partnership are very rare. Only six pairs are listed by W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back in Great British Gunmakers

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