AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with heavy octagonal browned twist barrels signed in gold and each with gold fore-sight, single gold line at the breech, and gold-lined touch-hole, case-hardened tangs finely engraved with martial trophies, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with rollers, blued safety-catches also locking the steels, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, highly figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, silver mounts of exceptional quality comprising finely engraved trigger-guards (spurs removed), butt-caps cast and chased with an elaborate trophy of arms above a satyr-mask, all in high relief against a punched ground, side-plates pierced and chased with a trophy of arms in high relief, rococo escutcheons with faint traces of a crest, and rear ramrod-pipes also cast and chased in relief, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps, blued triggers, and original horn-tipped ramrods, retaining most of their original finish throughout (minor pitting on each barrel rib): in fitted relined brass-mounted mahogany case with cleaning rod and three-way flask covered in mottled leather, by John Manton, London, No. 1921 for 1793, London silver hallmarks, with maker's mark of Moses Brent but without date letter 15in.
AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS with heavy octagonal browned twist barrels signed in gold and each with gold fore-sight, single gold line at the breech, and gold-lined touch-hole, case-hardened tangs finely engraved with martial trophies, signed case-hardened detented bevelled locks with rollers, blued safety-catches also locking the steels, and gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, highly figured walnut half-stocks, chequered butts, silver mounts of exceptional quality comprising finely engraved trigger-guards (spurs removed), butt-caps cast and chased with an elaborate trophy of arms above a satyr-mask, all in high relief against a punched ground, side-plates pierced and chased with a trophy of arms in high relief, rococo escutcheons with faint traces of a crest, and rear ramrod-pipes also cast and chased in relief, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end caps, blued triggers, and original horn-tipped ramrods, retaining most of their original finish throughout (minor pitting on each barrel rib): in fitted relined brass-mounted mahogany case with cleaning rod and three-way flask covered in mottled leather, by John Manton, London, No. 1921 for 1793, London silver hallmarks, with maker's mark of Moses Brent but without date letter 15in.
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