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Pistol, percussion   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Colgan
Title
Pistol, percussion
Object type Classification: NM3.7875
Description
English: Colgan percussion pistol, circa (1860s-1870s) Belonged to Sergeant Sheppard NZGAV, Auckland circa 1890s percussion pistol; hexagonal barrel; 13mm calibre; captive ramrod attached; chequered butt; engraved on plate and base of barrel; silver inlay on barrel, one missing; nipple broken; hammer cracked and damaged; white metal escutcheon on wrist of butt, unmarked markings- name on lock and barrel- COLGAN Maker- Colgan. (Wakefield Street, Auckland)
Date (1860s-1870s); 06 Nov 1973; 19th century
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length: 70mm
height: 90mm
calibre: 13mm
width: 30mm
length: 185mm
notes: barrel

notes: overall
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
775992 (object number)
Place of creation New Zealand; Auckland
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, A7011, W2081
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Colgan percussion pistol, circa 1900 Belonged to Sgt. L Sheppard, 2nd Auckland Company, Auckland Volunteer Garrison Artillery. The maker is probably Colgan, Gun Maker of Wakefield Street, Auckland, who is listed as a gunmaker in the 1860s, and is possibly the same person as George Colgan who had a business in Glebe, NSW in the 1850s. history- Belonged to- Sgt George Lewis Sheppard, New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers, c1900. George Sheppard was born in Auckland in 1878, and it is possible that this pistol may have originally belonged to his father who worked in Auckland as a bootmaker. The gun maker is almost certainly George W Colgan who was working as a gunmaker at 43 Wakefield Street, Auckland in the 1860s. He was also associated with Colgan fun maker of Waterford, Ireland, and may be the same George Colgan who is listed as a gun maker at Glebe, New South Wales in 1855.

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