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Lot 193

A 25-Bore Arsenal Shortened Flintlock Long Sea Service Pistol
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £864 inc. premium

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A 25-Bore Arsenal Shortened Flintlock Long Sea Service Pistol
Late 18th/Early 19th Century

With plain barrel and tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' across the tail and stamped with a crowned '2' below the pan, figured full stock (minor split and chipped around the pommel) with apron around the tang and stamped with Ordnance Board of ownership mark on one side of the butt, regulation brass mounts, belt hook, and iron ramrod, King's proof marks
23.1 cm. barrel

Footnotes

See R.E. Brooker, Jr., British Military Pistols 1603-1888, 1978, p. 64, fig. 57. The crowned '2' below the pan indicates that the lock was inspected by a lock viewer of the East Indian Company

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