BY JOHN BARTON, 14 HAY MARKET, LONDON, CIRCA 1805

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 36-Bore D.B. Flintlock Carriage Pistols
By John Barton, 14 Hay Market, London, circa 1805
With signed browned twist octagonal barrels (minor rust staining) each with gold line and platinum-lined touch-hole, silver fore-sights, finely engraved grooved case-hardened tangs each incorporating the back-sight, signed engraved detented case-hardened bevelled locks each with engraved safety-catch, stepped tail, semi-rainproof pan, roller, blued steel-spring, and original blued finish on the internal working parts, figured walnut half-stocks, chequered swelling flat-sided butts, finely engraved blued iron spur trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, case-hardened trigger-plates, silver-lined ramrod-entries, silver escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrods, one with worm, in almost unused condition with nearly all original finish: in original lined and fitted brass-bound mahogany case (minor damage to lining) with accessories including two-way flask covered in red leather (leather damaged), the lid with trade label for 1803-16, the exterior with circular escutcheon and flush-fitting carrying handle, London proof marks
16½in. (26.7cm.)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

John Barton worked in partnership with Robert Wogdon from 1794 to 1803, and remained at the 14 Haymarket address until 1816. The trade label is of the rare type illustrated in W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, plate 52

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