A Fine Flintlock Duelling Pistol by Twigg 15 ½” overall, 10” slightly swamped, twist octagonal sighted 28 bore barrel signed along the top flat ‘Twigg London’ & engraved with a line of beadwork behind the back sight. Gold touch hole, London Proofs & ‘IT’ barrelsmith’s mark on underside, border engraved tang each decorated with foliage, flat bevelled lock with second form of signature & stepped tail, swan necked flat cock, spoon shaped pan, roller on toe of the frizzen. Figured full stock carved in relief with a shell behind the barrel tang, rounded flat-sided butt carved with characteristic step behind the lock and side-flat on each side, steel trigger guard with acorn finial & decorated with a flowerhead on the border engraved bow, turned ramrod pipes, horn tipped ramrod with iron worm.
Circa 1780
Fine early duelling pistol in very good condition, original finish to barrel.
John Fox Twigg was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1732. He is recorded at various addresses in London between 1755 and the year of his death in 1790. Durs Egg worked for him on his arrival in London in 1772 and John Manton served as his foreman. He is considered to be one of founding fathers of the English gun making trade