PRE-WAR SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA CAVALRY PISTOL: MARKED US MODEL 1816 FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY NORTH, FIRST TYPE

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Originally $3,200.00

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Item Code: 766-1740

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This is a good example of the US Model 1816 pistol by Simeon North with the first type lock markings and is clearly stamped along the top of the barrel near the breech S. CAROLINA, indicating it went to that state under the Militia Act. At left breech is a very clear P / US and there is a small sunken rectangle that may have been a state inspection or unit marking. The pistol was cleaned at some point but came out well. The metal overall shows gray with darker gray pitting, somewhat heavier around the breech and on the lock, but the lock plate markings are clear enough to show part of the “US” in the middle and show very sharply the entire lower line address, MIDLN CON (of “S. NORTH/ U [eagle] S/ MIDLN CON,”) making clear it is the strike of the earlier die, the later one inserting a “T” and a second “N” for the abbreviation of Middletown, Connecticut.

The wood has a warm brown color and shows some good edges to side flat and lock apron, but with some chipping at the front end of the lock plate and around the side plate and lock screws. There is a faint ink oval inspector cartouche on the left flat with a short hairline running through it from the side plate.

The pistol is in the standard configuration for the 1816, with a .54 caliber barrel, iron mounted, with double strapped Wickham band at front and the stock protruding a bit forward. The wood ramrod is missing, as is usually the case. Total production for this pattern was 19,374, the number coming from North’s 1813 contract for 20,000 pistols in .69 caliber, which was changed after delivery of 626 to specify .54 caliber. These were delivered in 1817 (3,074,) 1818 (8,300,) 1819 (6,500,) and 1820 (1,500,) inspected by several different US inspectors. With the abolition of U.S. cavalry units in 1815 it is no surprise that a large number went to various states, though enough were on hand for 750 to be designated in January 1834 for issue to the newly reconstituted U.S. dragoons.

This is a good example that could have been carried by any one of South Carolina’s most “elegant elite,” its mounted militia companies, the cavalry being always the favored service of upper society.   [sr] [ph:L]

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