Collection Highlights
View of Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York
after 1883
1904.22
Black ink, white gouache, and graphite on photo-sensitive paper, laid on card
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Luce Center
Box lock cannon barrel flint pistol
Title
Box lock cannon barrel flint pistol
Object name
Pistol
Date
1760-1780
Medium
Wood, iron, silver
Dimensions
barrel length: 7 1/8 in. ( 18.1 cm )
Overall: 12 in. ( 30.5 cm )
Description
Wood, iron, and silver flintlock pistol; cannon barrel with cock mounted at top; iron furniture; bag handle with grotesque silver face buttcap; engraved flowers on trigger bow, barrel tang, and both plates; engraved crosshatching behind cock; stamped marks on barrel and left plate; stamped proofs at breech of barrel.
Credit Line
Gift of Louise Phillipe de Luze
Object Number
1923.40
Marks
stamped: left plate: "CAIRNS & FREARS"; "I" on bottom barrel
stamped: breech barrel: "crown/GP"; "crown/V"
Gallery Label
According to accession records, this pistol belonged to the donor's great-great grandfather, Philip Schuyler, a New York landowner who was commissioned a major general by Congress in June, 1776, and commanded the army's Northern Department until his replacement by Horatio Gates in August, 1777.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
