A GEORGE III LIGHT DRAGOON FLINTLOCK PISTOL with signed 9in. sighted barrel, signed border engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang, butt with iron-mounted aperture for a shoulder stock, regulation brass mounts, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, by Durs Egg, London, London proof marks, late 18th Century

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A GEORGE III LIGHT DRAGOON FLINTLOCK PISTOL with signed 9in. sighted barrel, signed border engraved rounded lock with 'GR' crowned, walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang, butt with iron-mounted aperture for a shoulder stock, regulation brass mounts, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, by Durs Egg, London, London proof marks, late 18th Century
15¼in.

Lot Essay

See Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms, p.108
Robert E. Brooker, Jr., British Military Pistols, p. 45, fig. 36

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