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Lot 193
A 25-Bore Arsenal Shortened Flintlock Long Sea Service PistolLate 18th/Early 19th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £864 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 25-Bore Arsenal Shortened Flintlock Long Sea Service Pistol
Late 18th/Early 19th Century
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
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








