A FINE PAIR OF FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with heavy browned twist octagonal sighted barrels scratch rifled and signed in full, and each with engraved case-hardened recessed patent breech with two platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-hole, engraved case-hardened tangs, signed and engraved case-hardened detented locks each with roller, 'French' cock, V-shaped rainproof pan, patent steel, and blued safety-catch and steel-spring, figured walnut half-stocks, blued iron mounts including finely engraved numbered trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheons, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, original brass-tipped ramrods, and most of their original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories and a printed instructions sheet for 'John Manton & Son's Patent Self-priming Gun Locks', the lid with trade label, flush-fitting carrying handle, and circular escutcheon, and complete with leather travelling cover, by John Manton & Son, Dover Street, London, No. 8018 for 1822