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Durs Egg
Swiss-born British gunmaker

Durs Egg

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Swiss-born British gunmaker
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Basel, Switzerland
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London, UK
Age
65 years
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Biography

Durs Egg (1748–1831) was a Swiss-born British gunmaker, 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.

In popular culture

A pair of Durs duelling pistols are the subject of the mystery novel The Judas Pair.

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