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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 558

A Fine Pair of Flintlock Pistols
A Pair of early 19th Century 25-Bore Officer´s Flintlock Pistols, by ´J. & W. Richards, Liverpool´, both stocks inscribed ´Liut. Nicholson Lit. 83´, percussion conversions, expertly re-converted to flintlocks by ´The Gunmakers of the Royal Armouries´, replacement ramrods and crack to fore-end of one stock, together with an unrelated fitted case and various accessories (2)

Lieutenant John Nicholson was commissioned into the 83rd Regiment in February 1807 and served with the Regiment in Portugal. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Talavera, 18.7.1807, where the Regiment suffered 50% casualties including the Commanding Officer and four out of seven Lieutenants. Most of the severely wounded of the hospital at Talavera, including Lieutenant Nicholson, fell into French hands five days after the Battle. Nicholson survived the amputation of a leg, and lived to receive his Military General Service Medal.

Provenance: Benn Hunter Collection, Bonhams, 24.2.2000

Sold for
£2,000