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Lot 176

A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By James Collins, 12 Vigo Lane, Regent Street, London, Circa 1830

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By James Collins, 12 Vigo Lane, Regent Street, London, Circa 1830

With twist octagonal sighted barrels each signed along the top flat and retaining some original finish underneath, breeches each engraved with foliage and with gold-lined maker's stamp, platinum lines and platinum-lined touch-holes, foliate engraved tangs each incorporating the back-sight, signed border engraved flat locks decorated with foliage, cocks en suite, safety-catches, and rollers, figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, trigger-guards each with pineapple finial and engraved with foliage and a martial trophy on the bow, vacant silver escutcheons and barrel-bolt escutcheons, turned ramrod-pipes, adjustable set triggers, and original brass-tipped ramrods each with brass cap over the worm: in original lined and fitted wooden case with some accessories including Syke's patent powder-flask, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks
24.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

James Collins is recorded at 12 Vigo Lane, Regent Street, London between 1825 and 1835

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