A Superb Steel Mounted Flintlock Holster Pistol by Richards. With round barrel swamped towards the muzzle, decorated along the top with a long slender line of foliage, struck with Richards barrel smith mark and London proofs, foliate engraved tang, signed border engraved lock, full-stocked in walnut with raised foliate mouldings around the tang and lock, completed with engraved steel mounts comprising scrolling foliate side-plate, long eared butt cap decorated with sprays of foliage, vacant oval escutcheon and turned ramrod pipes, with horn tipped ramrod. 

Richards, Thomas [1750-1780]

Shop in London. Made cannon barrel box-lock flintlock pocket pistols and under Government contract made flintlock holster pistols. 

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

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Barrel Length: 8.6 Inches (21.85 cm)

Overall Length: 15 Inches (38 cm)