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Lot 163

A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Officer's Pistol
By Durs Egg, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1788, Maker's Mark Of Michael Barnett

24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Officer's Pistol
By Durs Egg, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1788, Maker's Mark Of Michael Barnett

With rebrowned twist barrel signed along the top flat, silver fore-sight, tang engraved with foliage and with a parrot on a palm leaf, gold-lined touch-hole, signed flat border engraved lock (cock replaced) decorated with a starburst behind the pan, a bird, and with foliage on the stepped tail, figured full stock with horn fore-end cap and characteristic diamond-shaped chequering, silver mounts comprising escutcheon with owner's crest and monogram, butt-cap engraved with foliage, trigger-guard with foliate finial and engraved with a martial trophy on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod with steel worm, London proof marks
26.6 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Durs Egg, son of Leonz Egg of Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland, was born in 1748 and, following a short stay in Paris, came to London and worked for John Twigg in 1772, 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, Windsor Castle, and many other public and private collections. For full details see Claude Blair, 'The Egg Family Part 1 and Part 1 (contd.)', The Journal of The Arms & Armour Society, Vol. VII (1973), pp. 266-299 and 306-353

The crest is that of the Earls of Lauderdale, probably James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839). Maitland was Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland and a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords, and with the Earl of Yarmouth attempted to negotiate peace with Napoleon and Talleyrand in August 1806

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