DUTCH-BELGIAN NAVAL FLINTLOCK PISTOL. Ca. Early 19th Century AD. A Dutch-Belgian Naval flintlock pistol with a Crown over DN proof mark on the lock plate. These guns were in use between around 1800 and 1845, though most were converted to percussion caps in the early 1840s. The mechanism appears to be working correctly. Size: 180mm x 390mm; Weight: 1.2kg Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1980s.