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A Very Rare Brace Of 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Service Pistols To The 3rd Dragoon GuardsCirca 1785
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Including property from the Mark and Peter Dineley Collections
27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,062.50 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Rare Brace Of 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Service Pistols To The 3rd Dragoon Guards
Circa 1785
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
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








