A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols By Wogdon...
A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1800
With rebrowned swamped octagonal sighted barrels each signed in script along the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork behind a gold line at the breech, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, tangs each incorporating a back-sight and finely engraved with foliage involving a fasces and Britannia shield, signed detented flat bevelled locks each with safety-catch, gold-lined pan, and roller bearing on a ramp on the steel-spring, the internal working parts retaining most of their original blued and burnished finish, figured full stocks each with swelling flat-sided butt, iron trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, engraved en suite with the tangs on the bow, and retaining some original blueing, set triggers, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original ramrods, one with threaded iron powder-measure and iron worm: in relined and refitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Robert Wogdon
25.5 cm. barrels
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 20 April 2011, lot 458
The Penrose Collection
Literature
John O'Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, 2019, p. 183, Cat. No. DP 4
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A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Wogdon & Barton, London, Circa 1800
With rebrowned swamped octagonal sighted barrels each signed in script along the top flat and engraved with a band of beadwork behind a gold line at the breech, silver fore-sights, gold-lined touch-holes, tangs each incorporating a back-sight and finely engraved with foliage involving a fasces and Britannia shield, signed detented flat bevelled locks each with safety-catch, gold-lined pan, and roller bearing on a ramp on the steel-spring, the internal working parts retaining most of their original blued and burnished finish, figured full stocks each with swelling flat-sided butt, iron trigger-guards each with pineapple finial, engraved en suite with the tangs on the bow, and retaining some original blueing, set triggers, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original ramrods, one with threaded iron powder-measure and iron worm: in relined and refitted mahogany case with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask, London proof marks and barrelsmith's mark of Robert Wogdon
25.5 cm. barrels
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 20 April 2011, lot 458
The Penrose Collection
Literature
John O'Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, 2019, p. 183, Cat. No. DP 4
