拍品 187
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A PAIR OF PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS with browned twist sighted barrels signed in full on the top flats (one barrel with small patches of pitting), engraved case-hardened breeches and tangs, the former each with platinum line and plug, signed case-hardened bolted locks engraved with foliage (hammers repaired, one action slightly defective), figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards with pineapple finial, vacant white-metal escutcheons, set triggers, white-metal fore-end caps, original brass-mounted wooden ramrods, and much original finish: in original fitted brass-mounted mahogany case lined in plum velvet with some accessories including copper three-way flask, signed D. Egg, Pall Mall, London, London proof marks, circa 1835

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A PAIR OF PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS with browned twist sighted barrels signed in full on the top flats (one barrel with small patches of pitting), engraved case-hardened breeches and tangs, the former each with platinum line and plug, signed case-hardened bolted locks engraved with foliage (hammers repaired, one action slightly defective), figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, engraved blued steel mounts including trigger-guards with pineapple finial, vacant white-metal escutcheons, set triggers, white-metal fore-end caps, original brass-mounted wooden ramrods, and much original finish: in original fitted brass-mounted mahogany case lined in plum velvet with some accessories including copper three-way flask, signed D. Egg, Pall Mall, London, London proof marks, circa 1835
15in.

拍品專文

Following Durs Egg's death in 1831, the business was carried on by his executors, his son George Frederick Egg and his son-in-law Frederick Nicolls Devey. The business was actually managed by another son, John, who probably retailed this pair of pistols