A PAIR OF 24 BORE PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS BY MURDOCH, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed on the flats, inlaid with gold lines and fitted with engraved percussion bolsters at the breeches, engraved tangs decorated with trophies-of-arms and fitted with nipple shields, signed stepped bolted lock decorated with scrolls, sunbursts and trophies, figured walnut full stocks (bruises, cracks), set triggers, flat sided butts cut with panels of chequering, engraved steel mounts including trigger-guards with pineapple finials, and butt-caps decorated with trophies-of-arms, and silver escutcheons engraved with the owner's initials 'A.C.' and crest (patinated, ramrods incomplete) 23cm; 9 1/8 in barrels The crest is that of Campbell, Chisholme, Clive, Cooke, Cruell, Cruikshanks or Crull. John Murdoch is recorded in the Small Gun Office at the Tower of London from 1781 until his death in 1822.
A PAIR OF 24 BORE PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS BY MURDOCH, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed on the flats, inlaid with gold lines and fitted with engraved percussion bolsters at the breeches, engraved tangs decorated with trophies-of-arms and fitted with nipple shields, signed stepped bolted lock decorated with scrolls, sunbursts and trophies, figured walnut full stocks (bruises, cracks), set triggers, flat sided butts cut with panels of chequering, engraved steel mounts including trigger-guards with pineapple finials, and butt-caps decorated with trophies-of-arms, and silver escutcheons engraved with the owner's initials 'A.C.' and crest (patinated, ramrods incomplete) 23cm; 9 1/8 in barrels The crest is that of Campbell, Chisholme, Clive, Cooke, Cruell, Cruikshanks or Crull. John Murdoch is recorded in the Small Gun Office at the Tower of London from 1781 until his death in 1822.
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