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A Fine Pair Of Silver-Mounted 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy John Twigg, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, maker's mark of John King
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £16,312.50 inc. premium
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A Fine Pair Of Silver-Mounted 32-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By John Twigg, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, maker's mark of John King
By John Twigg, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1774, maker's mark of John King
With slightly swamped octagonal sighted barrels retaining some browned finish (minor rust patination), signed with second form of signature along the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the rear of the breech, gold-lined touch-holes, tangs engraved with foliage against a matted ground, case-hardened detented locks each retained by two side-nails and with moulded border, second form of signature, stepped tail, and two rollers working on a blued divided steel-spring, the border engraved steels each with pan safety-cover released by a sprung stud (top of one cock expertly replaced), finely figured full stocks (some old bruising) each carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, rounded flat-sided butts, trigger-guards each with second pattern acorn finial and decorated with a flower-head in a diamond-shaped panel on the border engraved bow, turned ramrod-pipes, blued trigger-plates and adjustable set triggers, original horn-tipped ramrods, and some original finish, London proof marks (2)
26 cm. barrels
26 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby & Co., London, 20 July 1970, lot 325 (£950 to Neal)
W. Keith Neal Collection, P506
Christie's London, Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collection, 25 October 2001, lot 236
Literature
Peter Hawkins, The Price Guide to Antique Guns and Pistols, 1973, p. 83
W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, 1975, pp. 51, 140-141, pls. 105, 115 and 117-118








