AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS MADE FOR GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES, LATER KING GEORGE IV, with sighted browned twist barrels each with gold fore-sight, signed on the sighting flat, and inlaid with gold at the muzzle and breech, the latter with the Prince of Wales's arms (pre 1801), gold-lined touch-holes, signed gold-inlaid case-hardened detented locks with rollers, gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, and safety-catches also locking the steels, highly figured walnut full stocks carved with sprays of flowers and foliage in relief around the barrel tang, chequered butts, silver mounts in the French taste comprising engraved trigger-guards cast and chased with floral sprays and with urn finial, butt-caps with a mounted hussar and a fallen Turk in combat, in relief on a matted ground, and silver ramrod-pipes, gold-inlaid side-nails and trigger-plates, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, blued set triggers, horn fore-end caps, original horn-tipped ramrods, and nearly all of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with bullet mould, white-metal cleaning rod with chequered tip, and three-way flask covered in red leather, the lid with flush-fitting carrying handle, by Durs Egg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1788, maker's mark of Moses Brent14¾in.

AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS MADE FOR GEORGE, PRINCE OF WALES, LATER KING GEORGE IV, with sighted browned twist barrels each with gold fore-sight, signed on the sighting flat, and inlaid with gold at the muzzle and breech, the latter with the Prince of Wales's arms (pre 1801), gold-lined touch-holes, signed gold-inlaid case-hardened detented locks with rollers, gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, and safety-catches also locking the steels, highly figured walnut full stocks carved with sprays of flowers and foliage in relief around the barrel tang, chequered butts, silver mounts in the French taste comprising engraved trigger-guards cast and chased with floral sprays and with urn finial, butt-caps with a mounted hussar and a fallen Turk in combat, in relief on a matted ground, and silver ramrod-pipes, gold-inlaid side-nails and trigger-plates, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, blued set triggers, horn fore-end caps, original horn-tipped ramrods, and nearly all of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with bullet mould, white-metal cleaning rod with chequered tip, and three-way flask covered in red leather, the lid with flush-fitting carrying handle, by Durs Egg, London, London silver hallmarks for 1788, maker's mark of Moses Brent 14¾in.

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來源

A.B. Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 9 November, 1977, lot 384

拍品專文

Sold with a letter from the late W. Keith Neal listing the provenance of these pistols as follows:

J.H. White until 1934
J.N. George
Danish Collections 1934-1977 (including Ole Olsen)
A similar pair of double-barrelled pistols is preserved at Windsor (No. 196 and 197), with pommels of the same design, illustrated in Laking, plate 17. They are hallmarked 1787, and also have the Prince of Wales's arms in gold on the breeches
For details of George, Prince of Wales, Prince Regent in 1811 and King (George IV) 1820-30 see footnote to lot 91