A 25 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL BY BECKWITH, SNOWHILL, LONDON, CIRCA 1810 with browned twist octagonal swamped sighted barrel, signed within a gold-lined oval recess at the breech, inscribed 'Snowhill' and 'London' on the respective sides, gold-lined vent, finely engraved tang, signed border-engraved bolted lock fitted with semi-rainproof gold-lined pan, detents, roller and engraved cock, (refinished, restorations), set trigger, figured walnut half-stock, flat-sided walnut butt carved with fine chequering on the top and beneath, engraved steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guard engraved with a trophy on the bow and with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon engraved with the owner's initials, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, silver fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm 25.3 cm; 10 in barrel William Andrew Beckwith apprenticed to Wattell Clark in 1785, was free of the Gunmakers Company 1801 and is recorded at Snowhill circa 1802 until his death in 1841.