A Cased Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols by Wogdon & Barton of London. With swamped re-browned sighted barrels, signed in gold script, ‘Wogdon & Barton’ along the top-flats, with single gold lines at the breech, gold touch holes and gold lined pans, engraved steel tangs fitted with rear-sights, flat bevelled locks each signed within an oval supported by crossed palms, engraved with a star burst behind the pans and with martial trophies on the stepped tails, engraved safety catches and cocks, border engraved frizens, figured half-stocks each with dark horn fore-end caps and swelling flat-sided butts, trigger guards decorated with martial trophies on the bows and pineapple finials, set triggers and what appear to be original ramrods: in a contemporary lined and fitted case with accessories including powder flask, cleaning rod and bullet mould.  

WOGDON & BARTON
WOGDON
Robert, Apprentice to Edward Newton, gunmaker, Grantham, Lincs., 1748. Gunmaker at Mr. Maw’s haberdashers, Cockspur St., Charing Cross, 1764. Haymarket, 1774-1802. With John Barton, traded Wogdon & Barton from 1795, succeeded by Barton, 1803. Died aged 79. Famous for duelling pistols. Poem, Stanzas on Duelling, by an Irish Volunteer, 1783, began, ‘Hail Wogden! Patron of that Leaden death’.

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA.

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