拍品 84
84
A PAIR OF EARLY FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with browned sighted barrels signed on the top flat and engraved with a line of beadwork on each breech and barrel tang, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with safety-catches, figured walnut full stocks, flat-sided butts cut with pineapple chequering, engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finial, set triggers, original ramrods, one with powder measure, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted oak case with bullet mould and a translucent horn flask, the lid with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Robert Wogdon, London, circa 1780

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A PAIR OF EARLY FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with browned sighted barrels signed on the top flat and engraved with a line of beadwork on each breech and barrel tang, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with safety-catches, figured walnut full stocks, flat-sided butts cut with pineapple chequering, engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards with acorn finial, set triggers, original ramrods, one with powder measure, and much original finish: in original lined and fitted oak case with bullet mould and a translucent horn flask, the lid with carrying handle of Chippendale form, by Robert Wogdon, London, circa 1780
14in.
出版
Wilfrid Ward, 'British Pistol Duelling and its Weapons', p. 17
'Weapons of Honour', p. 964

拍品專文

Cf. a very similar pair of Wogdon pistols sold in these Rooms 13 November 1985, lot 220