A 25-BORE BRASS-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK PISTOL

BY D. EGG, LONDON, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A 25-BORE BRASS-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK PISTOL
BY D. EGG, LONDON, LATE 18TH CENTURY
With swamped barrel signed 'D. EGG - LONDON' on the short sighting flat at the breech, iron tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock, walnut full stock, regulation type brass mounts, and brass-tipped ramrod with worm, London proof marks
7in (17.8cm) barrel

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Lot Essay

This pistol is of the type ordered in 1796 for Philip d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, with two hundred pairs being made by Durs Egg and Henry Nock. For further information see Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, p. 64

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