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LOT 1263
Historic Pair of Henry Tatham Flintlock Officer’s Pistols
with Case Inscribed to “Captain Daniel Tyler” of Pomfret,
a Veteran of the American Revolution Including the Battle of Bunker Hill -A) Tatham Flintlock Pistol - NSN, 69 cal., 8
1/2 inch flat top round bbl., brown/casehardened/blue finish, walnut stock. These c. 1800 officer’s pistols feature smoothbore, Damascus barrels with blade front and notch rear sights, gold vent liners, and bands of engraving at the breeches. The standing breeches have British patriotic and floral engraving. The locks are signed “TATHAM” for Henry Tatham (1770-1835) and have large frizzen spring rollers, lined borders, floral and British classical martial engraving, burst patterns, half-cock safeties, and stepped tails. The iron furniture features coordinating martial and floral engraving, and the stocks have checkered wrists and added “DT”
210 inscribed silver escutcheons. Similar pistols were made by Tatham
comes in a fitted case with a 17 bore ball mold, oiler, flints, later
G. & J.W. Hawksley combination flask, loading and cleaning rod, balls, and a screwdriver. The handle on the lid is inscribed “Captain Daniel Tyler Pomfret 1778”. Captain Daniel Tyler III (1750-1832) of Brooklyn, Connecticut, graduated from Harvard in 1771 and was married that year in Pomfret, Connecticut, to Mehitable Putnam (1749-1789), daughter of Israel Putnam (1718-1790), a veteran
of the French & Indian War and a major general in the American Revolution. He endorsed a copy of the alarm for the Committee
of Correspondence following the Battle of Lexington and served as the adjutant of Putnam’s Connecticut Regiment during the war and served under Putnam at the Siege of Boston, including the famous Battle of Bunker Hill where Putnam reportedly gave the famous order to hold their fire until they could see the whites of the British soldiers’ eyes. His own father also fought in the battle as the lieutenant colonel of the 6th Massachusetts.
& Egg (Henry Tatham and Joseph Egg) c. 1801-1814. The pair