



Lot 361
A Very Fine Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling PistolsBy Robert Wogdon, London, Circa 1780
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £18,812.50 inc. premium
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A Very Fine Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Duelling Pistols
By Robert Wogdon, London, Circa 1780
By Robert Wogdon, London, Circa 1780
With browned swamped octagonal barrels each signed along the top flat, engraved with a transverse band of beadwork at the rear of the breech and with silver fore-sight, case-hardened foliate engraved tangs each decorated with a band of beadwork en suite in front of the back-sight, signed case-hardened flat bevelled detented locks and cocks, the former each retained by two screws and with safety-catch and blued steel-spring, the internal working parts retaining their original burnished finish, figured full stocks with swelling flat-sided butts, blued border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-caps each engraved with foliage on the tang and with a flower-head centred on the retaining screw, trigger-guards each with acorn finial and decorated with a flower-head on the bow, turned ramrod-pipes, set triggers, horn-tipped ramrods, one probably original, the other shortened, and in exceptional condition retaining nearly all their original finish: in contemporary lined and fitted oak case (slight damage on the inner right side) with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask with black leather body, turnscrew and mainspring-clamp, the exterior of the lid with brass carrying handle of Chippendale form, London proof marks and Wogdon's barrelsmith's mark
25.5 cm. barrels
25.5 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Provenance
Sotheby's London, Modern Sporting Guns and Firearms; Arms, Armour and Militaria, 8 December 1988, lot 358
For related examples see John O'Sullivan & DeWitt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, 2019, pp. 145-147 and 150