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A Fine Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1800
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £15,000 inc. premium
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By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1800
By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1800
With re-browned slightly swamped octagonal sighted barrels each signed in script along the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear of the breech, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, border engraved tangs each with back-sight and decorated with foliage, case-hardened detented flat locks each signed in script, case-hardened cocks each held at half-cock by a safety-catch, rollers each bearing on a ramp on the steel-spring, figured full stocks with swelling flat-sided butts (pommels each with bruising), blued trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and decorated with a Britannia shield over a fasces against foliage on the border engraved bow, bright set triggers, blued turned ramrod-pipes, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and ramrods, one with horn tip, the other with threaded iron powder-measure and iron worm, and retaining much original finish: in original fitted and re-lined mahogany case with accessories including a brass-mounted Wogdon flask, the leather body with bevelled edges and flint wallet (damaged), the exterior of the lid (old scratches and bruising, catches replaced) with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks and Wogdon's barrelsmith's mark
25.4 cm. barrels
25.4 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Robert Wogdon and John Barton were at 14 Haymarket, London, between 1795 and 1803








