Pistol owned by HMS Victory sailor to go under hammer
By Press Association 2021 The flintlock pistol will be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Militaria and Ethnographic Sale in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on April 14 A flintlock pistol once owned by a sailor who served on HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar will be auctioned later this month. William Rivers’s 22-bore British Flintlock 1801 Pattern Long Sea Service Pistol is expected to fetch around £1,000 to £2,000 when is it sold, according to Tennants Auctioneers. The pistol will be sold with a handwritten note which was found rol...