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Post by zimmerstutzen on Mar 22, 2014 5:54:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 6:21:12 GMT -5
Looks like a Hewson??
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Post by zimmerstutzen on Mar 22, 2014 6:32:30 GMT -5
Wow Loggy, very good. Hewson made some similar horse pistols, but NO. This was actually a standard pattern cavalry item.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2014 6:34:17 GMT -5
Nice lookin pistol Zimmie!! I was gonna say Howdah but all ive ever seen were double barrels.
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Post by zimmerstutzen on Mar 22, 2014 6:50:09 GMT -5
It is 20 ga.
Hint: The six hundred would have had them in their famous exploit
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2014 19:46:08 GMT -5
I give up!
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Post by zimmerstutzen on Mar 24, 2014 12:07:30 GMT -5
It is a repro of the British 1842 pattern Lancer pistol. Manufactured by dozens of British firms and supplied to the cavalry troops that fought the Russians in the Crimea in the 1850's. The British 17th Lancers were part of a larger force called the Light Brigade. It was the charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava that was the basis of Tennyson's poem by that name. The 17th lancers lost roughly 60% of it's compliment in that charge. Even though it was a British loss, the ferocity of the charge struck fear in the Russian Cavalry and the mounted Russians refused to confront the British horsemen for the duration of the war. The 1842 pattern Lancer was slightly altered for the East Indian Company Troops that maintained order in India after the Sepoy rebellion and was carried by troopers in the Bengal Lancers. Despite the advent of the many available cap and ball revolvers, the 1842 pattern continued to be manufactured into the 1870's for use by colonial cavalry units.
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