I like flintlock pistols of the 18th century, so whenever i come across an interesting item about them in my reading I collect it. Here are a few which others might enjoy.
1740 riding pistols
1753 Taken out of the subscriber's house .... a cutlass with a basket hilt, and a pistol, the back like a saw,
1755 a side Highland pistol,
1758 Guns & pistols, Wilson's make.
1763 pocket and holster pistols
1764 common and best brass barrel Holster Pistols, with good locks, moulds and cases,
1765 a few steel-mounted pocket pistols with rifle barrels, and moulds to fit price from £.8 to £.9 a pair.
1767 brass barrel pistols
1767 a Pair of Screw barrell'd Brass mounted Pistols, with the Maker's Name upon the Lock, Fisher, in Whitehaven.
1768 Pocket Pistols, some of them of a new construction, and mounted in sliver.
1768 Humphreys brought the pistol home with him; it was a horse one, and charged four fingers high.
1769 silver and Steel-mounted Pocket-Pistols,
1772 Silver-mounted Saddle Holsters, and Pocket Pistols, Brass and Steel-mounted ditto,
1772 a case of pocket pistols
1773 a silver mounted PISTOL, maker's name WILLMORT
1773 pistols for holsters and the pocket,
1773 German made GUNS and PISTOLS
1774 a very neat Pocket Pistol, the stock mounted and inlaid with silver, on which at the end of the barrel is the figure of a squirrel, maker’s name T. KETLAND, engraved on the side of the barrel, in a circular form.
1774 double and single barrel pistols;
1774 swords, with pistols fixed at the hilt;
1775 A Pair of very fine brass rifle-barrel PISTOLS, silver mounted, at first cost
1776 musket and pistol cartridges, bullets and formers, of all sizes
1782 all armed with pistols , one remarkable long in a belt hung over the shoulder.
1785 a double barrel'd pistol, the stock of which is inlaid with silver.
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1740 riding pistols
1753 Taken out of the subscriber's house .... a cutlass with a basket hilt, and a pistol, the back like a saw,
1755 a side Highland pistol,
1758 Guns & pistols, Wilson's make.
1763 pocket and holster pistols
1764 common and best brass barrel Holster Pistols, with good locks, moulds and cases,
1765 a few steel-mounted pocket pistols with rifle barrels, and moulds to fit price from £.8 to £.9 a pair.
1767 brass barrel pistols
1767 a Pair of Screw barrell'd Brass mounted Pistols, with the Maker's Name upon the Lock, Fisher, in Whitehaven.
1768 Pocket Pistols, some of them of a new construction, and mounted in sliver.
1768 Humphreys brought the pistol home with him; it was a horse one, and charged four fingers high.
1769 silver and Steel-mounted Pocket-Pistols,
1772 Silver-mounted Saddle Holsters, and Pocket Pistols, Brass and Steel-mounted ditto,
1772 a case of pocket pistols
1773 a silver mounted PISTOL, maker's name WILLMORT
1773 pistols for holsters and the pocket,
1773 German made GUNS and PISTOLS
1774 a very neat Pocket Pistol, the stock mounted and inlaid with silver, on which at the end of the barrel is the figure of a squirrel, maker’s name T. KETLAND, engraved on the side of the barrel, in a circular form.
1774 double and single barrel pistols;
1774 swords, with pistols fixed at the hilt;
1775 A Pair of very fine brass rifle-barrel PISTOLS, silver mounted, at first cost
1776 musket and pistol cartridges, bullets and formers, of all sizes
1782 all armed with pistols , one remarkable long in a belt hung over the shoulder.
1785 a double barrel'd pistol, the stock of which is inlaid with silver.
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