9inch barrel signed HENSHAW and dated 1802, further marked with the EIC heart-shaped motif, flat lock with ring neck cock, signed and dated to match, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, brass topped wooden ramrod. See page 276 VOL II Catalogue of Patterns - Small Arms of The East India Company 1600-1856 by David Harding for the table discussing this models introduction to service. It is also of note that during the Napoleonic Wars the Ordnance Department purchased large numbers of pistols from the EIC to bolster dwindling supplies.