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Lot 274*

A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock 1760/78 Pattern Royal Forester's Light Dragoon Pistol
Late 18th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock 1760/78 Pattern Royal Forester's Light Dragoon Pistol
Late 18th Century

With russet barrel and tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned and 'Tower' across the tail, figured full stock (fore-end with old splits at the muzzle, repaired beneath the tail of the lock) carved with a shell behind the tang and stamped with indistinct inspector's marks including crowned initials behind the tail of the side-plate, regulation brass mounts comprising shaped bevelled side-plate of 'Blues' pattern, shaped escutcheon, light dragoon pattern spurred pommel and trigger-guard, and replacement iron ramrod (some wear and rust patination overall), King's proof marks
25.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

See De Witt Bailey, Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, p. 63, pl. 94

Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 30 April 2014, lot 323

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