A Cased Pair of Percussion Duelling Pistols by P Wilkinson.
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15 ½” overall, 10” octagonal sighted 25 bore barrels each signed along the top flat in gothic scrip ‘P. Wilkinson London’. Two gold line patent breech. Adjustable foresight, rear sight on scroll engraved tang. London Proofs on underside of barrels. Bevelled bolted scroll engraved percussion from flintlock locks, signed ‘P. Wilkinson’ with foliate flat scroll engraved dolphin hammers. Figured walnut half stocks with chequered rounded butts, trigger guards, decorated with engraved musical trophy and piled arms, trigger plates each with pineapple finial, silver fore-end caps. Silver escutcheons with a crest of a wheatsheaf in raised arms above initials ‘LLW’. Barrel bolt escutcheons and original brass tipped ramrods both with worms. In later, but made for these pistols, mahogany blue velvet lined case with accessories including brass three way powder flask, bullet mould, cap box with Eley label, turn screw, nipple key and loading rod. One corner box lid with Jackson label. The interior of the lid with embossed ‘Jackson of 15 Edgeware Road’ trade label, the exterior with circular brass escutcheon and folding brass carrying handle.
Pistols Circa 1815, converted to percussion and re-cased Circa 1850.
High quality pistols in very good condition, very well converted from flint and fitted in best quality case.
Peter Wilkinson Gunmaker 10 Poppins Court Fleet Street 1788-1819.
Richard Jackson Gunmaker 1831-69, Edgeware Road 1847-1869 maker of patent steel bows.