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Lot 179
A Fine Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Durs Egg, London, No. 641, Circa 1815
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £11,520 inc. premium
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A Fine Cased Pair Of 40-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Durs Egg, London, No. 641, Circa 1815
By Durs Egg, London, No. 641, Circa 1815
With rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrels each with gold fore-sight and signed in gold along the top flats, case-hardened breeches each with two gold lines and incorporating the back-sight, platinum-lined touch-holes, case-hardened tangs each engraved with foliage and a martial trophy, signed case hardened border engraved serial numbered locks each decorated with a starburst behind the pan and with foliage at the tail, safety-catches also locking the steels, gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, engraved cocks, blued steel-springs, rollers, steels engraved 'D. Egg Patent', figured half-stocks with chequered rounded butts, blued engraved spur trigger guards each with pineapple finial, fore-end caps each engraved with a starburst, vacant gold escutcheons, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, set triggers, and original serial numbered horn-tipped ramrods, one with powder-measure: in original lined and fitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted three-way powder-flask, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior with circular flush-fitting brass carrying handle, London proof marks and Egg's barrelsmith's mark
26 cm. barrels
26 cm. barrels
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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 2 December 2004, lot 499
The trade card appears to be an early example for the 132 Strand address and is not recorded in W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, British Gunmakers Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment 1760-1860, 1980




