Cavalry pistol with flintlock
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Cavalry pistol with flint lock, the iron round barrel, worked with copper ornaments along its entire length, ending octagonally. The flint lock is entirely of iron with copper ornaments; the top of the hammer is also decorated with a copper ornament; the flint steel is ribbed. The wooden stock is decorated with incised lines with motifs and inlaid silver ornaments. The wooden butt has a copper-decorated butt plate of rocaille work. The neck of the butt is ornamented with thin lines of brass in elegant forms running along the entire length of the neck. The trigger guard is missing, a small iron trigger at the underside of the pistol. On the left side of the pistol copper fittings. Under the stock a ramrod sleeve with a copper end and containing a wooden black-painted ramrod. On the left side of the stock three holes, of which the rightmost contains an iron pin, the other two pins are missing.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description