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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Service Pistol Designed For Philip D'Auvergne, Prince Of BouillonBy Durs Egg, London, Circa 1796
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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock Brass-Barrelled Service Pistol Designed For Philip D'Auvergne, Prince Of Bouillon
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1796
By Durs Egg, London, Circa 1796
17.7 cm. barrel
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Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 26 November 2014, lot 314
Philip d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon was a Captain in the Royal Navy and was stationed in the Channel Islands with responsibility for communications between the British Government and the French Royalists. Two hundred pairs were made by Durs Egg and Henry Nock at 48s. a pair. It is not known whether they were intended for the Royalists or whether they were for Bouillon's small naval force. See Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, 1961, p. 64; and H. Kirke, From the Gun Room to the Throne; being the life of Philip d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, 1904








