With browned sighted octagonal barrel, signed ‘Wogdon & Barton London’ in script along the top-flat, decorated with a band at the breech and with gold touch-hole, blued foliate engraved tang, fitted with standing rear-sight, signed, stepped bevelled lock with blued spring and screws, full-stocked in walnut with characteristic flat-sided butt, blued steel mounts comprising trigger guard, decorated with foliage and a shield on the bow and pineapple finial, blued ram-rod pipes, with original powder measure ramrod. 

WOGDON & BARTON 

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

WOGDON

Robert, Apprentice to EdwardNewton, 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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