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A Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Bronze-Mounted Officer's Pistols
By Durs Egg, London, Early 19th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of 18-Bore Flintlock Bronze-Mounted Officer's Pistols
By Durs Egg, London, Early 19th Century

One reconverted from percussion, with re-browned twist barrels each signed in gold along the sighting flat and with gold fore-sight, breeches each with three gold lines and gold-lined touch-hole, border engraved tangs decorated with martial trophies and foliage and each with folding leaf back-sights, signed border engraved locks (the original re-engraved to match the replacement lock) each decorated with foliage on the tail and with gold-lined rainproof pan and roller, steels engraved 'D. Egg Patent', figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts, one with border engraved steel mount for the figured skeleton take-down butt, the latter with cheek-piece, spring-lever catch with engraved locking bolt, and border engraved tang along top engraved 'D. Egg's PATENT BUTT', border engraved mounts comprising spurred pommels each engraved with differing trophies on both sides and with lion-mask cap, trigger-guards in the 'French' manner and each with pineapple finial and a martial trophy on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, fore-end caps each engraved with starbursts, and contemporary brass-mounted ramrod (the other later) (3)
23.5 cm. barrels

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