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A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1795
30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,875 inc. premium
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A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1795
By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1795
With rebrowned slightly swamped octagonal barrels signed in script and stamped with King's County (Offaly) Irish cencus numbers 'IK-S 1309' and '2K-S 1309' along the top flats, silver fore-sights, breeches each with a line of beadwork at the rear and gold-lined touch-hole, tangs each incorporating a back-sight and engraved with foliage involving a Britannia shield and drums, signed detented flat bevelled locks each with safety-catch, one now blued, and roller bearing on a ramp on the blued steel-spring, figured full stocks (some bruising, fore-ends split in the ramrod-channel) with swelling flat-sided butts, blued steel trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and decorated with a Britannia shield and foliage on the border engraved bow, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, blued ramrod-pipes, set triggers, original ramrods each with threaded powder-measure and iron worm, and some original blueing: in original relined and partly refitted case with loading rod, the exterior of the lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof mark and Wogdon's barrelsmith's mask
25.4 cm. barrels
25.4 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Robert Wogdon and John Barton were at 14 Haymarket, London, between 1795 and 1803








