Sea service flintlock pistol

One such product became the Sea Service pistol of. At their core, the Sea Service pistols were conventional flintlock weapons requiring a piece of flint rock to be held in a vice atop the hinged hammer-cock. The very heavy service they saw, over a long perio and in a harsh salt water environment did them in.

The metal surfaces of this pistol are a mottled plum-brown and gunmetal gray patina showing scattered spots of old pitting. The pistol was a single shot, flintlock ignition gun with a 12” long, round iron smoothbore barrel in “pistol bore”, approximately.

What was the sea service pistol? Very nice, but either your typing or your micrometer is in error as the standard for sea service is. Your pistol is one of the new short sea service types not a conversion. It has the shorter belt hook, the additional screw holding it in place and the less elongated butt which was carried over in the Newland types.

Caliber, barrel with a fine, lightly freckled bore. This is a handsome pistol that has an overall pewter gray patina with dark brown freckling along the barrel, and further plum-brown fre. In very good condition.

Gun is complete with belt-hook. Action works perfectly. Lock has the remnants of the word Tower the Crown GR on the lock is not visible but the ordnance mark and the barrel proofs are clear. The ramrod is a later replacement.

This is a well used sea service pistol that will not cost you $0or more. This unusually large pistol remains somewhat of a mystery. Closer inspection reveals that it is instead likely a continental copy of the English pistol. The converted flintlock with separate pan is of similar style to Dutch or Germanic pieces of the period. In overall excellent original flintlock configuration.

Regulation pattern, roun iron,. Pirates will not dare to board you when they stare down the muzzle of this hand-cannon! I have fired it a few times with. A range of the most authentic Pistol Kits available. Offering unrivalled authenticity, manufactured in our own workshops and Foundry with the highest quality materials.

Pair Of Cased Manstopper Bayonet.

Flintlock Pocket Pistols by Ryan and Watson £ 950. Original IteOnly One Available. Sea service pistols were often shortened later, but this usually involved installation of a metal ramro shorter thimble, rear entry pipe, etc. The metal is very goo showing a smooth silvery gray with only some miniscule pinpricks at the breech and tang. The lock has darker gray tones, but no pitting.

The touch hole is not burnt out. English Doglock Pistol. British Sea Service flintlock pistol brass trigger guard. Double Barrel Percussion Pistol.

English Sea Service guns of the period typically had a double-throated cock. I recently had a flintlock pistol given to me and was having a little difficulty identifying it. My best guess was a 19th century Belgian Sea Service pistol but there’s one marking on it that I cannot figure out. This model has the long ears on the brass butt-cap and the full length barrel.

It is fully stocked in best English Walnut and has a 12″.