Details
AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF SMALL FLINTLOCK PISTOLS with rebrowned twist octagonal barrels signed in gold and with silver fore-sights, patent recessed breeches each with back-sight, two gold lines, and platinum-lined touch-hole, engraved tangs, engraved bevelled locks each inscribed 'Joseph Egg Patent' and fitted with roller, swept rainproof pan clear of the touch-hole, and small safety-catch (one replaced), the steels engraved 'Jos.h Egg Patent' and numbered 2150 and 2151 respectively, figured walnut full stocks, engraved silver mounts including spurred pommels engraved with a crest and motto, iron trigger-plates each with pineapple finial, silver escutcheons engraved with initials JM, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped ramrods: in original fitted mahogany case lined in blued velvet (central partition missing) with accessories, the lid with trade label and flush-fitting carrying handle, the escutcheon plate engraved with the same crest, motto, and initials as the pistols, by Joseph Egg, London, each barrel numbered 2151, London silver hallmarks for 1815, maker's mark of Moses Brent
6¾in.
Exhibited
Willmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April, 1962, No. 27
The Art of the Armourer, Victoria and Albert Museum, 19 April - 5 May, 1963, No. 261
