Description:

North America, Mexico / Southwestern United States, Spanish Colonial period, ca. late 18th to early 19th century CE. A handsome flintlock pistol featuring a wooden stock, steel barrel, and silver and brass ornaments. The backstock is beautifully overlaid with brass openwork of foliate and swirling designs. The side plate is decorated with additional foliate motifs with a central medallion containing a Neoclassical figure in profile with a feathered helmet. The top of the steel barrel is inlaid with small silver shapes above a faint stamped crown mark. This petite style of pistol was used by soldiers assigned to the Spanish Missions and presidios (forts) that dotted the landscape of what is today northern Mexico, the American Southwest, and the California coast. Size: 10.75" L x 1.75" W (27.3 cm x 4.4 cm); quality of silver: 63%

Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection

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#160352

  • Condition: Large area of loss to wood under barrel. Other losses, chips, and nicks to wood around lockplate and backstock. Cracks and fissures to metal and wood. Losses to ramrod. Hammer and trigger do not move, and trigger guard is missing. Buttcap is not flush with stock and partially loose. Thick patina on metal. Gun has not been tested for firing functionality.

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