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Single shot, flintlock, rifled, .58 caliber, blued steel, Versailles, 1794–1797. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. A duelling pistol is a type of pistol that was manufactured in matching pairs to be used in a duel, when duels were customary. Duelling pistols are often single-shot flintlock or percussion black-powder pistols which fire a lead ...
A Wogdon & Barton target pistol c.1801-3, with its case and accessories. Owned by Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number:37.154.3a–g [1] Wogdon & Barton dueling pistols. Wogdon & Barton (founded by Robert Wogdon) was an 18th-century firm of gunsmiths based in London, England.
Agrafa flintlock pistol [1] (Greek made) Chamelot-Delvigne M1873, M1874 and M1884 revolver (French made) ... Armoured cars and trucks. ACV-IP Mk II ...
Manton's weapons remain some of the most highly sought-after designs of the flintlock age and can fetch more at auction than Holland & Holland's shotguns. His workforce included James Purdey (who went on to found Purdey's), Thomas Boss, William Greener, Charles Lancaster and William Moore. These five established major gun firms. [9]
Pistols at Dawn: A History of Duelling. Little, Brown Book Group Limited. ISBN 978-0-7499-2996-1. Kelly, James. That Damn'd Thing Called Honour: Duelling in Ireland 1570–1860 (1995) Kevin McAleer. Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany (1994) Morgan, Cecilia (1995). "'In Search of the Phantom Misnamed Honour': Duelling in Upper ...
The Nock volley gun. Henry Nock (1741–1804) was a British inventor and engineer of the Napoleonic period, best known as a gunmaker.Nock produced many innovative weapons including the screwless lock and the seven-barrelled volley gun, although he did not invent the latter despite it commonly being known as the Nock gun.
The Nock gun was a seven-barrelled flintlock smoothbore firearm used by the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars.It is a type of volley gun adapted for ship-to-ship fighting, but was limited in its use because of the powerful recoil and eventually discontinued.
Durs Egg (1745–1822) was a Swiss-born British gunmaker, [1] noted for his flintlock pistols and for his company's production of the Ferguson rifle. Egg was apprenticed in Solothurn and Paris before establishing his own business in London in 1772. He was a contemporary of Joseph Manton, Jean Samuel Pauly, and the uncle of Joseph Egg.