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Lot 340

A Rare 25-Bore George II Heavy Dragoon Flintlock Holster Pistol
By Jordan, Dated 1760

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 25-Bore George II Heavy Dragoon Flintlock Holster Pistol
By Jordan, Dated 1760

With barrel engraved '7 Drags' towards the breech, plain tang, border engraved rounded lock (cock replaced, one side-nail missing) with 'GR' crowned and signed and dated across the tail, figured moulded full stock with apron around the barrel tang and stamped 'PW' to the left of the escutcheon, full regulation brass mounts comprising shaped rounded side-plate, shaped escutcheon engraved 'T3/27', spurred pommel, trigger-guard and ramrod-pipes, and later wooden ramrod (steel parts worn and rust patinated), King's proof marks
30.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

See Robert E. Brooker Jr., British Military Pistols, 1978, p. 35, fig. 26

The maker is probably Thomas Jordan of Birmingham

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