A 1756 Pattern Land Service Pistol By Grice

A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock 1756 Pattern Land Service Pistol By Grice, Dated 1759.
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A Rare 25-Bore Flintlock 1756 Pattern Land Service Pistol
By Grice, Dated 1759. With plain russet barrel and tang, border engraved rounded lock (top jaw and screw replaced) with 'GR' crowned and signed above the date across the tail, figured moulded full stock (old bruising) with shallow apron around the tang, and stamped with obsolete mark on the back of the butt, regulation brass mounts including shaped rounded side-plate, spurred pommel and shaped vacant escutcheon, brass ramrod-pipes, and original brass-tipped ramrod, indistinct King's proof mark and sold out of service mark.

This is probably one of the best examples I have encountered. Completely untouched/cleaned.  

Notes:

See also De Witt Bailey, Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, p. 62, pl. 89
 
 
GRICE
James
Gun Manufacturer, 2 Whistlers Ct., Cannon St., 1793-6. Joseph Grice (1782-97) and William Grice (1766-90), gunmakers, Birmingham, also marked guns ‘London’.
John Gunsmith, Ratcliff, 1712-14
Thomas Apprenticed to John Willows in Gunmakers Co., 1704
William Junr. Gunmaker, near Salters Hill, Cannon St., 1803. 

 
Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London 1350-1850, George Shumway Publishing, York, Pennsylvania, USA.

Dimensions:
Bore: 22 Bore
Barrel Length: 12 Inches (30.5 cm)
Overall Length: 19.5 Inches (49.50 cm)

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