.56 caliber (pistol bore). 12" pinned barrel. NSN. Bright finish, brass furniture, walnut stock. Single shot flintlock muzzleloading smoothbore pistol with belt hook, made without sights. 5.3" flat flint lock with pointed tail remains in original flint with integral rounded, bridled and fenced iron pan and flat reinforced cock. Lock marked {CROWN}/GR forward of the cock with a {CROWN-BROAD ARROW} inspection below the pan and TOWER in a vertical arc at the tail. Lock marked {CROWN}/3 on the interior as well as with the maker's initials RW. Upper right wrist with a weak, partially legible storekeeper's mark of a {CROWN-BROAD ARROW}/180?. Standard Board of Ordnance proofs on upper left quadrant of the breech, inspected what a large 2 on the tang and with a {CROWN/18} at the touchhole. Belt hook marked with a {CROWN/6} inspection. Indistinct inspection marks in the ramrod channel of the stock. Matching mating marks of three file slashes in the form of \ | | are found on the top edge of the lock, on the necks of the lock screws, on the lower edge of the belt hook and in the ramrod channel. The pistol was not further disassembled. The buttcap is rack numbered 40. An old brass tipped wood ramrod is present, secured by the single flared pipe, and is short of full length. A scarce example of a British Sea Service Pistol in original flint from the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 period that retains the original belt hook that is mating marked to the gun. {ANTIQUE}