Item Description
Original Item: One-of-a-kind. Now, this is a peach. It has an old arsenal repair but it is offered in very crisp lightly used condition. This is the 9-inch barrel Dragoon model introduced in the 1790s replacing the 12-inch barrel Dragoon pistols that had served throughout the 18th century.
The lock bears a crown over GR with TOWER across the lock tail. It features all brass mounts and a steel ramrod. The barrel is nicely marked with British proof marks.
The walnut wood stock had been cracked near the butt cap and trigger guard presumably because some trooper having fired his load had reversed the pistol and used is as a club. Someone certainly woke up with a headache on that day!
The stock repair is typical of regimental armory repairs of the period and then the pistol was returned to service.
Most interesting is the marking on the underside of the brass trigger guard that reads:
35
Twyford is a market town in the County of Norfolk on the east coast of England. In the late 1790s it became apparent that revolutionary France, with whom it had been at war since 1793, might well invade England. The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte with his amazing military skills on continental Europe gave great pause to England and all sorts of communities started raising their own Militia and Yeomanry units to help repel such an imminent invasion.
Once Nelson destroyed the combined French and Spanish Fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar Napoleon's invasion plan was eliminated and by the final Allied victory at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 all these Militia and Yeomanry units had been mostly disbanded.
A rare unit marked flintlock Dragoon pistol from the turn of the 18th century offered in very nice condition showing little actual use, totally original and authentic.
- This product is not available for shipping in US state(s): New Jersey
This product is available for international shipping.
- IMA considers all of our antique guns as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns made prior to 1899. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering because they are not legally considered firearms. No FFL, C&R or any license is required to posses, transport, sell or trade Antique guns. All rifles and muskets sold by IMA that were manufactured prior to 1899 are considered Antiques by the US BATF (United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms). Therefore, all of IMA's Antique guns may be shipped to all US States and most nations around the world.
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