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A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Land Service PistolBy Edge, Dated 1760
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,550 inc. premium
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A Rare 16-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Land Service Pistol
By Edge, Dated 1760
By Edge, Dated 1760
With plain shortened barrel and plain tang, border engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned and signed above the date across the tail, figured full stock (partly replaced at the muzzle, butt split through) with shallow apron around the barrel tang, regulation brass mounts comprising shaped rounded side-plate, spurred pommel and shaped vacant escutcheon, ramrod-pipes (forward one replaced), and later brass-tipped ramrod, King's proof marks
29 cm. barrel
29 cm. barrel
Footnotes
See De Witt Bailey, Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, p. 62, pl. 90








