Holster Pistol
date: label: date made
content: ca 1780
name: label: maker
content: Lawrence, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description:
label: Description
content: This .63 caliber smoothbore flintlock pistol was made by Thomas Lawrence of Philadelphia, Pa. It is brass mounted with decorative engravings on the trigger guard, guard plate, side plate, butt plate and lockplate. The stock is carved with a shell motif around the barrel tang.
label: Description
content: The lock plate is stamped “LAWRENCE” and the tang is stamped “PHILADa”.
label: Description
content: History:
label: Description
content: Thomas Lawrence was an armorer at the Continental Arsenal in Philadelphia from 1780 through 1782 and worked under government contract repairing arms through 1785.
label: Description
content: References:
label: Description
content: Flayderman, Norm. Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms…and their Values, Gun Digest Books, Iola, 2007. 9th edition.
label: Description
content: Smith, Samuel E. and Edwin W. Bitter. Historic Pistols: The American Martial Flintlock 1760-1845, Scalamandre Publications, New York: 1986, p. 76.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: The Bitter Collection of Firearms
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Adriana and Edwin W. Bitter Family Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0014.28
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0014.28
label: accession number
content: 1987.0014
label: collector/donor number
content: P177L
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pistol
label: Object Name
content: pistol, flintlock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (part material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (part material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 37.275 cm; 14 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: barrel: 1.6 cm x 23.495 cm; 5/8 in x 9 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 2 in; 37.465 cm x 15.875 cm x 5.08 cm