A Long Flintlock Duelling Pistol by Wogdon. With browned sighted barrel, slightly swamped towards the muzzle, engraved, ‘Wogdon LONDON’ along the top flat, decorated with geometric designs at the breech, foliate engraved tang fitted with rear-sight, stepped bevelled lock with sliding safety catch and set trigger, full stocked in walnut with engraved steel mounts comprising trigger guard decorated with a spray of foliage on the bow, acorn finial and engraved ramrod pipes, with horn tipped ramrod. 

WOGDON/WOGDEN

Robert Apprentice to Edward Newton, gunmaker, Grantham, Lincs, 1748. Gunmaker at Mr Maw’s 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: 11.5 Inches (29.21 cm)

Overall Length: 16.5 Inches (41.91 cm)