A Very Crisp Pair of Percussion Pistols be Baker of London. With round blued turn-off barrels, decorated with a band of foliage at the muzzle, profusely engraved rounded box-lock actions, signed on scrolls ‘BAKER’ to the left and ‘LONDON’ on the right, stamped below with London proofs, chequered walnut butts with vacant diamond shaped escutcheons, in a fitted case with a fine powder flask, bullet mould and barrel key. 

Ezekiel Baker & Son

Gunmakers. 24 Whitechapel Road, 1823-46; Size Yd., Whitechapel Road, 1847-52. Contractor to Ordnance and East India Co., 1823-36. 

BAKER

Ezekiel born 1758. Workman of Henry Nock (to whom formally apprenticed), 1785-7. Gun barrel maker, 8 Fieldgate Street., 1789-90. Gunmaker, 23 Little Alie Street., 1791-1804; 24 Whitechapel Road., 1804-23; also at Pall Mall, 1814. Proof House at Size Yard, Whitechapel Road., used special proof marks. Traded as Ezekiel Baker & son, 1823-36. Gunmaker to Ordnance from 1794; East India Co., 1803-22. Gunmaker in Ordinary George IV. His rifle adopted by British Army in 1800 and named after him. Author of Remarks on Rifle Guns 1801. Cavalry Rifle adopted, 803. Inventor of improved flintlocks, bayonets, bullet moulds and a gun stocking machine. Awarded silver medals by Royal Society of Arts, 1816, 1821-2. Died 1836. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 120-Bore

Barrel Length: 1.5 Inches (

Overall Length: 4.75 Inches (