A Good Flintlock Duelling Pistol by Wogdon. With browned sighted octagonal barrel, signed ‘WOGDON LONDON’ in script along the top-flat, decorated with a band at the breech, blued foliate engraved tang fitted with a standing rear-sight, signed, stepped bevelled lock with sliding safety catch, full-stocked in walnut (small crack at tail of lock) with characteristic flat-sided butt, blued steel mounts comprising butt cap decorated with foliage, trigger guard with a flower head on the bow and acorn finial, turned ramrod pipes and steel tipped ramrod. 

WOGDON/WOGDEN

Robert Apprentice to Edward Newton, gunmaker, Grantham, Lincs, 1748. Gunmaker at Mr Maws haberdasher, Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, 1764; Haymarket, 1774-1802. With John Barton traded as Wogdon & Barton, from 1795, succeeded by Barton, 1803. Famous for duelling pistols. Poem, Stanzas on Duelling, by an Irish Volunteer, 1783, began ‘Hail Wogden, Patron of that Leaden death’.

WOGDON & BARTON

Robert Wogdon & John Barton Gunmakers, 14 Haymarket, 1795-1803. Gunmakers to Bow St. Police, 1801-3. 

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

Dimensions:

Bore: 22 Bore

Barrel Length: 9.75 Inches (24.76 cm)

Overall Length: 14.5 Inches (36.83 cm)