TOWER MANUFACTURE, Birmingham, Cap pistol, officer's, English

steel, walnut wood, silver, brass; overall length 34 cm, barrel length 21 cm, length with mustache (tail) 28 cm.
England, Birmingham, early 19th century.
Steel barrel, octagonal, large caliber. Cap-shaped lock with dolphin-shaped cock, decorated similarly to the lock plate and trigger guard - with engraving with floral motifs. Walnut bed, long, flask with a tang incised in a fine checkering; on the back of the handle an oval silver cartouche for the coat of arms or initials of the owner. Beneath the barrel a bedded, metal sleeve-covered after-barrel. On the bottom of the barrel, gunsmithing marks of the Tower manufactory of 1797; Birmingham.