A Very Rare 1794 Pattern Light Dragoon
A very rare flintlock 1794 Pattern Light Dragoon pistol marked to the 15th Light Dragoons. Nine inch barrel, balustre-moulded at the breech, with Tower military view and proof marks, “I(W?)” (possibly for John Whately) barrel maker’s stamp to the left of them, “XV LD” engraved on the top of the barrel, and a crown stamped faintly on the tang. Double border line engraved, rounded, swan neck cock, slightly rounded, double border line engraved, bevelled, Pattern 1777 Land Service pistol lock, marked “GR” crowned, “Tower” on the tail and with crowned broad arrow stamped horizontally below the pan, teardrop finial to the feather spring. Walnut full stock, stamped with two very faint crowns on the right side of the butt, above the trigger guard tang, and the letters “BK” in the ramrod channel, and carved apron around the barrel tang. Regulation brass mounts, the inside of the trigger guard stamped with a crown, and “H/82” punched into the trigger guard, brass-tipped wooden ramrod, 15¼” overall. Very good working order and condition. Circa 1794.
Note: The 15th Light Dragoons regiment was raised in the London area by George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, as Eliotts Light Horse, the first of the new regiments of Light Dragoons, in 1759. It was reconstituted as an hussar regiment in 1807, and fought in the Peninsular War in 1808-1809, and in the Napoleonic Wars in 1813-1814, including at Vitoria, and was in action at Waterloo.
This actual pistol is illustrated in “British Ordnance Single Shot Pistols” by Geoffrey Davies, Barry Chisnall and Clive Brook on page 4-21, and see also pages 4-7 and 4-8.
£3,000.00
1 in stock
