A PAIR OF IRISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with swamped octagonal sighted barrels each signed within a gold oval at the breech, the breeches with gold line and gold-lined touch-hole, flat border engraved locks signed within a gold oval and with safety-catches, rollers and gold-lined semi-rainproof pans (one action slightly defective, top of one cock and one top jaw missing, one comb and jaw screw incomplete), figured walnut half-stocks (some bruising, one cracked), chequered butts, iron spur trigger-guards each engraved with a trophy of arms and with pineapple finial, silver butt- and fore-end caps each engraved with foliage, vacant silver escutcheons, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, set triggers, and original wooden ramrods (one broken, tip missing from the other), one with steel powder measure (iron parts with surface rust overall), by Robert Tomlinson of Dublin, private Birmingham proof marks, circa 1805