May 17, 2022 Early Arms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/17/2022
The Sea Service pistol of the Napoleonic War of 1812 period was but little changed from the pattern of 1756/77. It still had the characteristic flat lock plate in use since early in the 18th century a 12" barrel of .62 bore, and a long, iron “rib” or belt-hook screwed to the sideplate (now bearing a crown/GR stamp). The hardware and stock were now a little more robust in form, the lock was bridled, and the cock and lock plate had engraved edging lines; otherwise, the arm was virtually indistinguishable from those in use nearly 100 years earlier. One of these pistols, along with a cutlass or sometimes, a boarding axe, was typically issued out to a certain proportion of the sailors from a Royal Navy vessel detailed for boarding or landing parties, the others being armed with Sea Service muskets and bayonets. CONDITION: The ironwork now a deep, gunmetal grey and the figured walnut stock very good, less a few dings and bruises from age/use; the lock in very good working order, the wooden ramrod possibly a replacement. JLK
Caliber/Bore
.58 Smoothbore