CASED PAIR OF WOGDON & BARTON FLINTLOCK PISTOLS.

CASED PAIR OF WOGDON & BARTON FLINTLOCK PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. 56. Fine pair of pistols with 10″ swamped oct bbls with tiny front sights & fixed rear sights on breech plug tangs. Top flats are marked “Wogdon & Barton London”. They have front action locks with sliding safeties, roller, bridled frizzens with humps in frizzen springs. Frizzen springs have swelled ends with short teats. Lockplates are straight with beveled edges, stepped tails & short teats with aforementioned sliding safeties. Hammers have graceful goosenecks with decorative beveled edges & engraved screws. They have scalloped, gold-lined pans & gold flash holes. There is a wide gold band at breech end of bbls with engraved borders. Breech plugs are beautifully engraved with small trophy of arms & engraved screw heads. They are mounted in smooth, 1-pc, walnut, full length stocks with two wedges through German silver escutcheons. They have raised side panels with flat sided bag shaped grips and are mounted with silver plated iron furniture consisting of single guides with a decorative nose pipe. Trigger guards are nicely tapered with foliate & floral engraving & elaborately engraved pineapple finials. One has its orig horn tipped rammer & the other has what is probably its orig rammer with a tapered steel tip on one end and a worm on the other. A truly fine early set. Accompanied by a walnut casing with green baize lining, compartmented in bottom for pistols, an ebony, steel & brass cleaning rod, a nutcracker style ball mold with sprue cutter marked “28” and a small brass powder flask. Corner compartments are empty with one cover missing & the other a replacement. CONDITION: Pistols remain in very good to fine condition with bbls retaining 85-90% orig brown Damascus pattern. Lockplates & hammers are a smooth dark gray patina with one hammer neck broken & repaired. Stocks are sound with minor, light handling & use marks with one small gouge on one pistol & both retain a smooth hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, smooth even bores with a few spots of pitting. Case has a couple of grain checks in lid with some shrinkage at front corners and a crack & bug damage in bottom, otherwise is sound with handling & storage nicks, scratches & dings and retains most of an old restored finish. Interior is faded & soiled with worm & moth damage but reasonably intact. Center partition has been amateurishly repaired & maker’s label is missing. 4-33803 JR399 (3,000-5,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2691	$9,775.00	CASED PAIR OF WOGDON & BARTON FLINTLOCK PISTOLS. SN NSN. Cal. 56. Fine pair of pistols with 10″ swamped oct bbls with tiny front sights & fixed rear sights on breech plug tangs. Top flats are marked “Wogdon & Barton London”. They have front action locks with sliding safeties, roller, bridled frizzens with humps in frizzen springs. Frizzen springs have swelled ends with short teats. Lockplates are straight with beveled edges, stepped tails & short teats with aforementioned sliding safeties. Hammers have graceful goosenecks with decorative beveled edges & engraved screws. They have scalloped, gold-lined pans & gold flash holes. There is a wide gold band at breech end of bbls with engraved borders. Breech plugs are beautifully engraved with small trophy of arms & engraved screw heads. They are mounted in smooth, 1-pc, walnut, full length stocks with two wedges through German silver escutcheons. They have raised side panels with flat sided bag shaped grips and are mounted with silver plated iron furniture consisting of single guides with a decorative nose pipe. Trigger guards are nicely tapered with foliate & floral engraving & elaborately engraved pineapple finials. One has its orig horn tipped rammer & the other has what is probably its orig rammer with a tapered steel tip on one end and a worm on the other. A truly fine early set. Accompanied by a walnut casing with green baize lining, compartmented in bottom for pistols, an ebony, steel & brass cleaning rod, a nutcracker style ball mold with sprue cutter marked “28” and a small brass powder flask. Corner compartments are empty with one cover missing & the other a replacement. CONDITION: Pistols remain in very good to fine condition with bbls retaining 85-90% orig brown Damascus pattern. Lockplates & hammers are a smooth dark gray patina with one hammer neck broken & repaired. Stocks are sound with minor, light handling & use marks with one small gouge on one pistol & both retain a smooth hand worn patina. Mechanics are fine, smooth even bores with a few spots of pitting. Case has a couple of grain checks in lid with some shrinkage at front corners and a crack & bug damage in bottom, otherwise is sound with handling & storage nicks, scratches & dings and retains most of an old restored finish. Interior is faded & soiled with worm & moth damage but reasonably intact. Center partition has been amateurishly repaired & maker’s label is missing. 4-33803 JR399 (3,000-5,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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