Lot 101
101
A FLINTLOCK MILITIA RIFLE OF THE GREAT PACKINGTON VOLUNTEERS with leaf-sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, plain tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, walnut three-quarter stock (some worming) with cheek-piece, full brass mounts of Baker type including hinged patch-box cover, butt-plate, and spur trigger-guard engraved with the number 8, brass fore-end cap, iron sling swivels, original iron ramrod, and contemporary iron sword-bayonet engraved with the number 13, by S. Wallis, Tower private proof marks, early 19th Century

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A FLINTLOCK MILITIA RIFLE OF THE GREAT PACKINGTON VOLUNTEERS with leaf-sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, plain tang, signed border engraved rounded lock, walnut three-quarter stock (some worming) with cheek-piece, full brass mounts of Baker type including hinged patch-box cover, butt-plate, and spur trigger-guard engraved with the number 8, brass fore-end cap, iron sling swivels, original iron ramrod, and contemporary iron sword-bayonet engraved with the number 13, by S. Wallis, Tower private proof marks, early 19th Century
30¼in. barrel (2)

Lot Essay

This rifle once formed part of a stand of at least thirty-six identical rifles. For further information see W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 42-43, pls. 67 and 68; and Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, p. 116, pl. 36(1)

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