.63 caliber. 7.875" pinned brass barrels. NSN. Bright finish, brass furniture, hardwood stocks. Single shot smootbore flintlock pistols. 4.5" flat locks in original flint and marked under the pans W./KETLAND/&Co. Locks with rounded and fenced, unbridled steel pans and flat faceted swan neck cocks. Locks and cocks with simple boarder line engraving. Breeches with post-1813 Birmingham proof marks and nocksforms marked LONDON. Flat New Land style sideplates, rudimentary brass butt caps, simple trade grade triggerguards, two ramrod pipes secure wooden ramrods with steel wipers at the ends, one with a brass disc tip. The overall form is very similar to the inexpensive Canadian Militia Pistols contracted for by the Board of Ordnance circa 1810-1815, with the exception of these having brass barrels. While very similar they are not an identical pair but more likely a mated pair. These pistols would have been equally at home in the pommel holsters of a militia cavalryman, an officer of lesser means or being used as items of trade. William Ketland established himself in the Birmingham gun trade in 1802 and worked as W. Ketland & Co circa 1808 to 1831.