A FINE PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with signed rebrowned swamped octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and an engraved band of beadwork at the breech, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs each incorporating a back-sight, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with rollers and safety-catches, finely figured walnut full stocks, swelling flat-sided butts, silver mounts comprising engraved trigger-guards hallmarked on the inside and each with pineapple finial, faceted ramrod-pipes, and silver butt-caps cast and chased with Britannia and rococo ornament in relief, set triggers, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and side-nail washers, and original ramrods, one with steel powder measure: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories, the whole set in fine condition throughout, by Robert Wogdon, London, London silver hallmarks for 1793, maker's mark of Moses Brent

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A FINE PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with signed rebrowned swamped octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and an engraved band of beadwork at the breech, gold-lined touch-holes, engraved tangs each incorporating a back-sight, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with rollers and safety-catches, finely figured walnut full stocks, swelling flat-sided butts, silver mounts comprising engraved trigger-guards hallmarked on the inside and each with pineapple finial, faceted ramrod-pipes, and silver butt-caps cast and chased with Britannia and rococo ornament in relief, set triggers, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and side-nail washers, and original ramrods, one with steel powder measure: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories, the whole set in fine condition throughout, by Robert Wogdon, London, London silver hallmarks for 1793, maker's mark of Moses Brent
14¾in.
Provenance
W. Keith Neal
Literature
Wildrid Ward, 'British Pistol Duelling and its Weapons', p. 17

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