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Lot 179

An Historic French 13-Bore Flintlock 1777 Model Varient 1782 Type Officer's Belt Pistol Found On The Plain Of Waterloo In Flanders By Jean Battist La Coste Guide To The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte...
No. 18, Dated 1782

23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,562.50 inc. premium

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An Historic French 13-Bore Flintlock 1777 Model Varient 1782 Type Officer's Belt Pistol Found On The Plain Of Waterloo In Flanders By Jean Battist La Coste Guide To The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte...
No. 18, Dated 1782

With russet barrel engraved in capitals 'This Pistol Was Found On The Plain Of Waterloo In Flanders By Jean Battist La Coste Guide To The Emperor Napolean Buonaparte After The Great Battle Fought There On The 18 June 1815 Between The Allied Army Commanded By The Duke Of Wellington And Marshall Blucher Against The French Army Commanded By The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte. Purchased Of Jean Baptise La Coste', short tang, and extension down the back of the butt engraved in capitals 'Purchased Of Jean Baptiste Da Costa At The House Called La Belle Alliance Near Mount St. Jeane Aug.t 29 1815 By W.M. Edwards', brass action with traces of manufactory details and stamped with crowned 'L' behind the brass pan, ring-neck cock (comb and jaw screw incomplete, top jaw and steel missing), figured rounded butt stamped 'Mars D' over '1782' on one side, and regulation brass mounts (some wear and rust patination, belt hook and ramrod missing)
19 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For a French flintlock model ANXIII military pistol taken at Waterloo from the body of a French Cuirassier who fell at the memorable Battle..., see Bonhams Bond Street, The Waterloo Sale, 1 April 2015, lot 144

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