I need help identifying this flintlock pistol. I was told it was made in the late 1700s or early 1800s, but I don’t know how accurate that info is. I did some basic searches to try to identify the proof markings but I couldn’t find anything. Thank you!
Help identifying flintlock pistol
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Very very nice! I would think it’s much earlier than that.
Loyer
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The gold tombstone shaped barrel mark look similar to Portuguese gun proof marks
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a miguelet gun with similar marks.
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a miguelet gun with similar marks.
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Looks Germanic to me. My guess that the dates are correct give it take a decade.
Sam squanch
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Maybe a Spanish or Portuguese barrel stocked up in France or Germany or somewhere?
we would need to narrow it down better than we have already before a proper estimate could be made
also a proper appraisal can only be made by a qualified person physically inspecting the fire arm
if we can figure out when and where it was made it will get you in a ballpark
Looks sorta like a French design with the angle of the grip and length of the grip, but they tended to favor ornamental pommels. Not always....
Probably made for a French client if it isn't French in origin.
the name on the lockplatte look German, try a look in the Heer-Stockel that lists all German weapon builders from 1400 - 1900
The Barrel looks Spanish - I bet Rudyard will know!!
The lock does have a strong French flavor.
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I was thinking Austrian stocking & perhaps a Spanish barrel the Poincions suggest that . So Ile dig out Lavin & Kieth Neales books see what who it might be made the barrel s (pistols made by the brace there might be its mate out there yet
)Well the Prancing horse looks very Juan de Soto but the counter mark doesn't fit he was a disciple of one Salvador Cennaro in Madrid But no specific mark appear in ether Lavin Or K' Neale 1783 he is noted as a worthy maker to the king or court though he had problems with the appointment .
SO the Mark may not be genuine .Copies of Spanish marks as is not unknown' .If in this case its so it underlines that 'imitation is the sincerest form of flattery'. There where it seems cases where pupils used the masters Mark but how many pupils Juan Soto had I cant determine . Your Pistol looks good to me regardless .
Rudyard's .educated SWAG
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Well the Pranceing horse looks ver y Juan de Soto but the counter mark dosnt fit
I would have guessed German from the 1790s give or take 10 years so the date sounds good. It's definitely German. The last word is the location. A Neustat. The new state wherever that is.
it's probably actually Neustadt which there are several
