Spanish Husar Pistol 1789

[corrado26]

Just to show you a new addition to my collection and to ask your comments. It is as I know a miquelet pistol for the Spanish light cavalry or husars M 1789. A letter "C" at the lockplate says that it was supposedly made in Catalonia, probably at Ripoll. On its barrel besides a regimental signature there is a crowned mark with the letters "BAR/MAS" that I cannot identify - perhaps Bartolomeo Mas?. May be that somebody is able to help.

[fernando]

I am looking in a book at a 1800 Husar pistol, with a 1789 lock. With the barrel with a crowned C for Cataluña, inscribed R. CBA.D HUSS. ESPS..But the punzon in this one is DOM-MAS (Doménech Mas, Ripoll). Could it be family ?

[Fernando K]

Ramiro Larrañaga "Sintesis Historica de la Armeria Vasca", pagina 263


"MAS Domingo - Catalan Fines del XVII y prinmcipios del XVIII. Unos sesenta armeros de este apellido aparecen en Ripoll entre los siglos XVIII y XIX"

Afectionately

[Fernando K]

Perdon


Mas Domingo Catalan. Fines del........

[midelburgo]

Have you dismantled it?


I got recently a 1789 pistol for the Regimiento de Caballeria de Santiago. Also the "short" model like yours.
My furniture, lock excepted is brass.

In the gilded shield at the top of the barrel I have JPP RUIZ, still unidentified.

On the bottom of the barrel, I found the year of making (1788 for me)
and the inspector mark (G for me).

On the inside of the battery there was the maker (Gabiola for me).


The Spanish Hussars were stablished, IIRC, in 1802 and they were short lived, being absorbed into the Cazadores by 1804. But do not take my word here. I can check later at home.

BTW. I found that Edwardian silver plate (nickel) spoons make fine tools for disassembling the screws.

[corrado26]

There have been two different versions of this pistol, the first version has iron mounts, the second has brass mounts. See Calvo, lamina 6, aparejos: En hierro!

[fernando]

Originally Posted by midelburgo

...On the inside of the battery there was the maker (Gabiola for me) ...

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Wouldn't you agree that, if your lock was GABIOLA, this master's name (and punzon) would appear on the outside, as so often seen ? .


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[fernando]

Originally Posted by Fernando K

Ramiro Larrañaga "Sintesis Historica de la Armeria Vasca", pagina 263


"MAS Domingo - Catalan Fines del XVII y prinmcipios del XVIII. Unos sesenta armeros de este apellido aparecen en Ripoll entre los siglos XVIII y XIX"

Afectionately

Interesting that Fernando K reminds us that some sixty gun makers with the (family) name MAS worked in Ripoll between the 18th and 19th centuries.