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A Very Rare Brace Of 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Service Pistols To The 3rd Dragoon Guards
Circa 1785

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Brace Of 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Service Pistols To The 3rd Dragoon Guards
Circa 1785

Each with shortened plain barrel engraved '3rd D-G DS' at the breech, one stamped 'I.G' to the left, border engraved rounded locks each with 'GR' crowned and 'Tower' across the tail, figured full stocks (both with some old bruising, one chipped beneath the lock, one fore-end tip with old splits and slightly incomplete at the muzzle on one side) each with apron and stamped with inspector's marks, initials and Ordnance Storekeeper's mark indistinctly dated 1786 above 'C' behind the tail of the lock, regulation brass mounts, and later ramrods, one with brass tip, King's proof marks (2)
27 cm. barrels

Footnotes

The 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards served in the Flanders campaign (1793-94) against the forces of Revolutionary France. The regiment went on to serve in the Peninsular between 1809 and 1815, and were present at all the major battles at that time

See DeWitt Bailey, Ph.D, Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, pp. 62-63 and 84-85, pl. 90

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