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Description: | One of pair flintlock pistols cased with accessories. Case in polished oak, with brass name plate on outer lid (a folding down handle included with name plate) and maker's name printed on a paper label inside the lid. Box contains 2 flint-lock pistols with accessories which belonged to Sgt John Smith, Gordon Highlanders, at Waterloo? (1815) France (or Peninsular War? - pers. comm. Gordon Smith, great-great-grandson of Sgt John Smith). Accessories include: powder flask made from brass and bronze, bullet mould and calipers combined, ram rod. The box has two lidded compartments, one containing pistol shot, the other containing gun flints and ?black powder
Field collector: Smith, Sergeant John | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1815 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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