BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, CIRCA 1800

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A .65 Enclosed Lock Volunteer Flintlock Carbine
By Henry Nock, London, circa 1800
With sighted two-stage twist barrel cut with Baker-style seven-groove rifling making three-quarters of a turn, and with bayonet bar mounted on the right side of the muzzle, octagonal patent breech (bruised) engraved 'H. Nock Patent', signed 4¾in. (12.1cm.) Nock patent screwless lock engraved with a sunburst over the front retaining hook, walnut three-quarter stock (bruised, cracked in front of the lock) with raised leather-covered cheek-piece, brass mounts including butt-plate engraved 'No. 12' and Baker-pattern butt-trap cover, iron sling mounts, and iron ramrod, the stock with 'JC' (?) stamp opposite the lock and 'WT' stamp in the ramrod-channel (in uncleaned condition, with armoury grease, probably covering some surface pitting), London proof marks
26 1/8in. (66.6cm) barrel

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Rifled carbines of this pattern were produced by Henry Nock on a commercial basis and supplied to Volunteer Companies, including 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
Cf. a similar carbine sold in these Rooms, 12 July 2000, lot 219

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