A 1777 Pattern Sea Service Flintlock Pistol.
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19 ½” overall, 12” barrel with ordnance proofs. The flat lockplate with unbridled steel & rounded pan, engraved ‘Tower’ on tail & with a crown over ‘GR’. Feather spring with spear point tip. Walnut full stock, regulation brass furniture, iron belt hook of regulation pattern. Brass tipped ramrod. Traces of faint storekeeper’s mark. Lock stamped SG for Samuel Galton, barrel stamped I B for Isaac Bissell.
Circa 1777-82
In good condition, metal parts good, stock has been rubbed removing stamps. Ramrod a replacement.