A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER HOWDAH PISTOL BY STAUDENMAYER, LONDON, NO. 1282, CIRCA 1810 with rebrowned tapering sighted barrels, signed on the upper flat and inlaid with a platinum line, engraved breech tang fitted with standing back-sight, signed border and foliate engraved bolted locks (cocks and steel replaced), fitted with rainproof pans and steel springs with rollers, highly figured walnut half-stock with chequered hook-shaped butt in the Catalan taste, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard decorated with a trophy-of-arms, blued vestigial butt-cap, and later stirrup ramrod (refinished throughout) 18.0 cm; 7 1/8 in barrels Literature Shaun Brown, Samuel Staudenmayer, Gun Maker, Cockspur Street, London, in, The Canadian Society of Arms Collecting, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2002. Samuel Henry Staudenmayer, Gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, apprenticed to John Manton and is recorded at Cockspur Street circa 1802-25.