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Lot 351

A Fine Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Robert Wogdon, Circa 1780

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £19,000 inc. premium

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A Fine Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Robert Wogdon, Circa 1780

With browned swamped octagonal barrels signed along the top flat and each with bent bore, engraved with a transverse band of beadwork at the rear of the breech and with silver fore-sight, case-hardened foliate engraved tangs each decorated with a band of beadwork en suite in front of the back-sight, signed case-hardened flat bevelled detented locks and cocks, the former each retained by two screws and with safety-catch and blued steel-spring, figured full stocks (minor old repair above the front of one lock) with swelling flat-sided butts, blued border engraved steel-mounts comprising butt-caps each decorated with foliage on the tang and with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, trigger-guards (one with some loss of blueing) each with acorn finial and decorated with a flower-head on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, set triggers, small silver escutcheons on each side flat engraved with owner's initial 'L, original ramrods, one with horn tip, the other with threaded brass powder-measure and iron worm, and retaining most of their original finish: in original lined and fitted oak case with later brass-mounted powder-flask, turnscrew with pricker, and combined loading/cleaning rod, the exterior of the lid with brass carrying handle of Chippendale form, London proof marks and Wogdon's barrelsmith's mark
24 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired from R.J. Wigington on 23 March 1974 and offered with the sale invoice

Cf. a very similar cased set sold in these Rooms 23 September 2020, lot 261

For related examples see John O'Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, 2019, pp. 145-147 and 150

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