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A Rare .65 Enclosed Lock Baker-Rifled Volunteer Flintlock Carbine
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A Rare .65 Enclosed Lock Baker-Rifled Volunteer Flintlock Carbine

BY HENRY NOCK, CIRCA 1800

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A Rare .65 Enclosed Lock Baker-Rifled Volunteer Flintlock Carbine
By Henry Nock, circa 1800
With sighted two-stage twist barrel cut with seven grooves and with bayonet bar mounted on the right side of the muzzle, patent breech engraved 'H. Nock Patent', signed 4¾in. (12.1cm.) Nock patent screwless lock engraved with a sunburst over the front retaining hook, figured walnut three-quarter stock (minor defects) with later raised leather cheek-piece, brass mounts including butt-plate numbered '36' and Baker pattern patch-box cover, iron sling mounts, and later iron ramrod, with sword bayonet of Baker type, London proof marks
26½in. (67.3cm.) barrel (2)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Sold with a photocopy of a letter from the late W. Keith Neal believed to refer to this "Baker" rifle

Rifled carbines of this exact type were also procured by the London & Westminster Light Horse Volunteers. See Jeff Paine, 'The Light Horse Volunteers' Rifled Carbine', The Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, vol. 34, no. 4 (November 1996), pp. 111-115

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