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Lot 2027

Fine Punjab Made East India Company Flintlock Officer's Pistol

Lot 2027

Fine Punjab Made East India Company Flintlock Officer's Pistol

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Closed

Estimate: $700 - $1,000

Estimate$700 – $1,000

Status

Closed

Fine Punjab Made East India Company Flintlock Officer's Pistol

22 Bore (.60 caliber). 9.5" pinned round swamped barrel with top salt. NSN. Bright finish, steel furniture, hardwood stock with checkered grip. Single shot smoothbore muzzleloading flintlock pistol with horn tipped wooden ramrod. Lock remains in original flint and is marked with the East Indian Company's "Rampant Lion" under the pan and with what appears to be an Urdu marking at the tail that provides a name of a potential maker and roughly "made in Lahore", a city in Punjab, which is now part of Pakistan. At the time this pistol was made (probably circa 1830s-1850s), the Punjab region was under control of the Sikh Empire and then in 1849 fell under the control of the East India Company, with the British Raj taking control in 1858. The pistol is made in a French form that was popular with French officers and some British officers as well, who were required to purchase and provide their own sidearms. Likely this was made to be sold to a less wealthy East India Company Officer, possibly in a Sikh regiment. A very nice and crisp pistol that likely dates from the early period of the British Raj and a time when the East India Company had one of the largest standing armies in the world.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Fine. Fine bore with moderate amounts of oxidation. Metal with scattered surface oxidation and freckled discoloration. Mechanically functional flint lock. Wood crisp with scattered bumps, dings and mars.

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Mr. Tim Carey

Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria

timcarey@freemansauction.com 513.666.4984

Mr. Carey joined Cowan’s, a Freeman's company, in 2021 and is a 40-year veteran of the sporting arms and outdoor recreation industry. Carey joined Cowan’s from Griffin & Howe at Hudson Farms in Andover, N.J., where he was responsible for the acquisition, appraisal, and consignment of top-tier firearms consignments from important makers such as James Purdey & Sons of London, Beretta, Caesar Guerini, B. Rizzini, Bertuzzi, Renato Telo, and Anderson Wheeler.

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