A Good Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols by Wogdon & Barton.
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15 ½” overall, 10" octagonal 28 bore sighted barrels, the top flats signed in gold script 'WOGDON & BARTON, LONDON' each with a gold line & engraved ball band at breech, adjustable white metal fore sights, shallow standing notch rear sights, fully engraved top tangs, gold lined touch holes, with RW and London Proofs on underside, engraved bevel edged locks with stepped tails each signed 'WOGDON & BARTON' in an oval, below gold lined gull wing semi rainproof pans, roller frizzens, broad engraved sliding safeties behind the engraved swan necked cocks, engraved top jaws, engraved frizzens. Walnut half stocks with semi slab sided bag shaped butts, engraved steel trigger guards with pineapple finials, and horn fore end tips, set triggers & under barrel ramrods, one with worm tip.
Circa 1800
Very high quality pair in good condition. Some minor pits on lock plates & trigger guards a little rubbed. May of been reduced from full stock to half stock. Wogdon & Barton half stocked pistols are very uncommon.
See John O'Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, ‘Robert Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers’ 1764-1819, 2019, pages 186-89 for similar half stocked pistols by Wogdon and Barton, and page 187 for similar lock.
Robert Wogdon was apprenticed to Edward Newton of Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1748. He is recorded as 'Gunmaker, at Mr. Maw's Haberdasher, Cockspur St., Charing Cross' in 1764. He carried on his business in Haymarket from 1774 until his retirement in 1802. From 1795 he was in partnership with John Barton who carried on the business following Wogdon's retirement.