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Lot 57
A Rare 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Land Service Pistol Circa 1780
24 June – 8 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,816 inc. premium
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A Rare 28-Bore Flintlock 1756/81 Pattern Land Service Pistol
Circa 1780
Circa 1780
With plain barrel and tang, border engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned and 'TOWER' across the tail, figured full stock (small repair on one side at the muzzle) with apron around the barrel tang and stamped with faint traces of inspector's marks and 'IS' behind the side-plate, regulation brass mounts, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod (repaired), possibly original, King's proof marks
30.5 cm. barrel
30.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
See De Witt Bailey, Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, pp. 62-63 and 84-85, pl.90
Cf. a similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 23 May 2018, lot 294




