Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Holster Pistol by Heylin 1770

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I started photographing this Brass-Barrelled Flintlock Holster Pistol today, but I’ve decided to stop and clean off what looks like some dried linseed oil.

This pistol was made by Joseph Heylin circa 1760. I am looking for a copy of Norman Dixon article "Joseph Heylin, a Georgian gunmaker 1730-1801". It was published in “The Journal Of The Arms & Armour Society Number: 3, Volume: 17, March”. Does anyone have a copy they'd like to share?

Here is what Blackmore’s Gunmakers of London has to say about Heylin:

HEYLIN, Joseph
Gunmaker, ‘at the Cross Guns’, Cornhill, 1757 (Sun Ins. No. 159890). Made free of Gunmakers Co., by redemption, proof piece & mark, 1757. Elected Assistant, 1773; Master, 1777. Gunmaker & stone crossbow aker, 48 Cornhill, 1757—79; 100 Bishopsgate Within, 1780-1 (Dir); Aldersgate St., 1796 (Pol). Contractor to East India Co., 1773-7; Hudson’s Bay Co., 1775-7; African Merchants Co., 1760. d. 1801.

Silver hallmarks became obligatory in Britain between 1697 and 1720. These hallmarks are a valuable aid in dating antique British firearms. For the Heylin pistol shown here:

1770
London
Sterling .925 Silver
John King

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