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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Very Rare Officer's 28-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Belt Pistol Belonging To Alexander Malcolm In The 78th (Highland) Regiment Of Foot Or The Rossshire Buffs image 1
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A Very Rare Officer's 28-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Belt Pistol Belonging To Alexander Malcolm In The 78th (Highland) Regiment Of Foot Or The Rossshire Buffs image 3
A Very Rare Officer's 28-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Belt Pistol Belonging To Alexander Malcolm In The 78th (Highland) Regiment Of Foot Or The Rossshire Buffs image 4
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A Very Rare Officer's 28-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Belt Pistol Belonging To Alexander Malcolm In The 78th (Highland) Regiment Of Foot Or The Rossshire Buffs
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1793

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Officer's 28-Bore Flintlock Single-Trigger Over-And-Under Belt Pistol Belonging To Alexander Malcolm In The 78th (Highland) Regiment Of Foot Or The Rossshire Buffs
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1793

With octagonal barrels signed in gold along the top and bottom flats, gold fore-sight, gold lines and gold-lined touch-holes, border engraved tang decorated with foliage involving a Britannia shield, border engraved flat bevelled locks each signed in an oval within foliage, and with foliate engraved safety-plate also locking the steel, gold-lined pan, and roller bearing on a ramp on the steel spring, engraved cocks (top of one replaced, the other with replaced top jaw and screw), figured flat-sided butt in Scottish style inlaid with silver wire scrollwork enriched with differing engraved silver martial and musical trophies and foliage, all highlighted with silver pins, large silver escutcheon on each side engraved respectively with owner's coat-of-arms and motto and crowned 'GR' cypher between 'Cuidich'n' and '78th', border engraved silver ram's horn pommel with threaded silver pricker between, gold escutcheon engraved with owner's crest and motto, steel trigger-guard in the French manner decorated with a palmette and a trophy suspended from a ribbon on the border engraved bow, belt-clip, and later steel ramrod with chequered tip (some areas of pitting)
15.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The original owner is Alexander Malcolm of Paltalloch whose military career is recorded as '12 October 1776, Ensign in 51st Foot; 28 December 1778, Lieutenant in the same regiment; 14 April 1780, Captain in the 97th Foot; 8 March 1793, Captain in the 78th Foot; 2 May 1794, Major in the same regiment. On 11 March 1795 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and apparently seconded for duty elsewhere as the Army List of 1796 describes him as 'Late 2nd Battalion, 78th Regt.' The 1798 Army List lists him with the local rank of full Colonel on 30 November 1796 in Portugal and he is listed as such from 1799 to 1803 inclusive, after which his name disappears from the records'

Durs Egg, son of Leonz Egg of Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland, was born in 1748 (d. 1831) and following a short stay in Paris, came to London and worked for John Twigg in 1772. He was granted denization in 1791 and is recognised as one of the greatest London gunmakers. He was gunmaker to George IV and the Duke of York, and was granted various patents during the course of his long and distinguished career. Examples of his work are preserved in the Royal Collection, at Windsor Castle, and many other public and private collections. For full details see Claude Blair, 'The Egg Family, Part I and Part I (contd.), J.A.A.S, Vol. VII (1973), pp. 266-299 and 305-353

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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