Yeah, just about anything Pedersoli makes these days is pricy. They are maybe the last Italian company left making fine flintlock pistols and long guns. They do import American black walnut and curly maple for their American replicas so I guess that's part of the cost.
I have yet to shoot one of the duelers. I bought the correct size balls from Track of the Wolf and got some new flints but I haven't been to the range since before the pandemic started.
The cased pairs of the reproduction Jefferson screw barrel flint box lock pistols show up from time to time at auction and on Gunbroker. I've seen them go as low as $1200 and as high as $2k.
I don't own the set but here are some pictures of one that sold at Rock Island last year. These were never offered singly to the best of my knowledge--just in way overpriced commemoratives set that never retained their original value in that they sell for less now than they did 35 to 45 years ago.
https://www.rockislandauction.com/d...s-historical-society-thomas-jefferson-pistols
Still, most of the initial issues that the US Historical Society initially produced were one-of-a-kind unique historical issues and never mass-produced so their prices today sometimes represent a decent value. Unfortunately, toward the end, the USHS started making generic commemoratives by simply taking standard production items like a Uberti 3rd model percussion Dragoon and pimping it up with gaudy gold plating. The company got bought out by "America Remembers" which sort of specializes in gaudy stuff like a .45 automatic dedicated to the late country singer Conway Twitty. You can already see the gold plate wearing off on the front end of the slide and that's an actual promo picture.
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