Product Details
DERBY, PARIS
A CASED PAIR OF 32-BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS, no visible serial numbers,
circa 1790, with re-blued slightly swamped round 9in. barrels, flat sighting plains with dove-tailed fore-sights and standing notch rear-sights, signed 'DERBY' at the breech-end together with a single gold line at breech, gold-lined touch-holes, border and scroll engraved polished top-tangs, flat, bevel-edged brushed bright locks with stepped tails, gold inlaid oval poincons with 'PARIS' in raised letters (one rubbed), scroll engraved accents, sliding safes behind the hammers, gilded bowls to the pans, roller-bearings to the frizzen-springs, walnut full-stocks with slab-sided bag-shaped butts, chequered backs, shell carving around the top-tangs, brushed bright pillar-fronted trigger-guard bows, set-triggers, pineapple finials, brushed bright ramrod thimbles, horn-tipped worm-ended wood ramrods, both pistols restored TOGETHER WITH a period but unassociated re-finished oak case, re-compartmented and re-lined in green baize and containing a period three-way powder-flask and scissors ball-mould together with some later accessories, the inside of lid bearing a possibly period parchment label depicting a coat of arms above 'THE RIGHT-HON'BLE THO. JAMES LORD VISCOUNT BULKELEY 1785'
Other Notes: Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, was born 12th December 1752 and died 3rd June 1822. He was an English aristocrat and politician. Born the posthumous son and heir to James Bulkeley, the 6th Viscount Bulkeley, who died aged 35 in 1752, he was educated as fellow commoner at Jesus College, Oxford before embarking on the Grand Tour with the Marquess of Buckingham; subsequently he gave a copy of Guido Reni's 'St Michael subduing the Devil' which he had acquired in Rome during the tour to the Jesus College chapel.
Like several of his ancestors, Bulkeley became MP for the county of Anglesey, being returned in 1774 and 1780. In 1777 he married Elizabeth Harriot, the only daughter and heir of Sir George Warren. Though he voted against Fox's East India Bill in 1783, he attended a 1784 meeting of MPs interested in uniting the Whigs and Tories. In May 1784 he was created an English peer, Baron Bulkeley, of Beaumaris. He supported Pitt on the regency question in 1788 and spoke in the Lords on the election treating act in 1796. He opposed the 'Adultery bill' in 1800. In the 1806 impeachment trial of Viscount Melville, Bulkeley voted Melville guilty on the sixth and seventh charges.
In 1802 Bulkeley legally changed his name by Royal Licence to Thomas James Warren-Bulkeley. He died without issue in 1822 in Englefield Green. His wife died in 1832; her will left property to a relation George Fleming Leicester, under condition that he was to change his surname to Warren.
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Estimate £3,000-5,000