British East India Company New Land Pattern Cavalry Flintlock Pistol

British East India Company New Land Pattern Cavalry Pistol

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British EIC Lion stamped lock with British proofs and ordnance marks, dated 1812. A nice and tight flintlock service pistol in very good condition. With fine walnut stock, steel barrel and brass furniture and mounts, steel lock with EIC & Lion stamp, with 'Crown 2' inspector's stamp, and British ordnance barrel inspection mark Crown over 9.  This pistol was manufactured in 1812. One of the 4,500 pairs contracted for the EIC Light Dragoons East India Co. but sold to the British Ordnance for the Light Dragoons and Hussars in the Napoleonic Wars. The East India Co. was an English and latterly a British company with an Army that was led by British officer's with a mixture of British and Indian other ranks. It had a most effective and powerful Navy and it's Army rivalled that of any in the world. It had many famous historical figures amongst it's members including, General Robert Clive aka Clive of India Lord Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and a past EIC Governor was Elihu Yale who was a British merchant and philanthropist, Governor of the East India Company settlement in Bengal, at Calcutta and Chennai and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College of Connecticut USA in his honour. The East India Company was, an anomaly without a parallel in the history of the world. It originated from subscriptions, trifling in amount, of a few private individuals. It gradually became a commercial body with gigantic resources, and by the force of unforeseen circumstances assumed the form of a sovereign power.

A very nice historical pistol of the Napoleonic Wars era as well as the War of 1812.  It is not perfect but the original vintage repairs are solid and done a very long time ago.  Lock functions as it should.

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