Description

A Brass Barrelled Flintlock Officers Pistol by Sharpe, London. With round barrel punched with a line of star designs at the breech and engraved ‘EXTRA SHARPE PROOF’ plain steel tang, signed border engraved lock decorated with a spray of foliage at the tail, full stocked in walnut, with plain military style mounts comprising butt cap, trigger guard and ramrod pipes, with brass mounted wooden ramrod.

Sharpe [1800-1840]
Made brass barrelled flintlock holster pistols and later box lock percussion pistols with folding trigger. Shop in London.

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York.