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Lot 175

A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Duelling Pistols
By Clarke & Son, No. 62 Cheapside, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1799, Maker's Mark Of Michael Barnett

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

£3,000 - £5,000

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A Pair Of 25-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Duelling Pistols
By Clarke & Son, No. 62 Cheapside, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1799, Maker's Mark Of Michael Barnett

With rebrowned twist octagonal barrels each engraved with maker's address along the top flat and with copper fore-sight, breeches each with two gold lines behind a line of foliate decoration, gold-lined touch-holes, foliate engraved tangs, signed flat locks (one signature refreshed, one cock expertly replaced) each decorated with a starburst behind the gold-lined pan, engraved safety-catches (one replaced) also locking the steels, rollers, figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, mounts comprising butt-caps each with retaining screw centred on a flower-head, spurred trigger guards each with a Britannia shield on the border engraved bow and with engraved pineapple finial, vacant shield-shaped escutcheons, fore-end caps each engraved with a starburst, turned forward ramrod-pipes, and bone-tipped ramrods, London proof marks and Ezekiel Baker's barrelsmith's mark (2)
28.2 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Richard Clarke & Son are recorded as Hardwaremen and then as Goldsmiths & Jewellers at 62 Cheapside, London between 1797 and 1829

Ezekiel Baker (1758-1836), inventor of the Baker rifle and author of Remarks on Rifle Guns (1801), was Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to King George IV. He was influential in the King's shooting and collecting, played an important role in the formation of the Carlton House Armoury, and had his own proof house at Size Yard, Whitechapel Road, London

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