Sale 5269
London
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26 October 1994
Price realised
GBP 920
Estimate
A RARE GENERAL POST OFFICE FLINTLOCK PISTOL of Light Dragoon type, with 9in. brass barrel, signed flat bevelled lock (minor piece missing in front of steel spring), ring-neck cock (top jaw missing, screw incomplete), figured walnut full stock with raised apron around the barrel tang, and full regulation brass mounts including pommel engraved 'GPO' (ramrod missing), by Wilkinson, London proof marks, early 19th Century 15½in.
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Probably made by James 1 Wilkinson, foreman, successor and son-in-law to Henry Nock. He was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to George III in 1805 and died in 1848
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