A RARE 10-BORE FLINTLOCK RIFLED SERVICE MUSKET

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A RARE 10-BORE FLINTLOCK RIFLED SERVICE MUSKET

SIGNED GRIFFIN (FOR BENJAMIN GRIFFIN), CIRCA 1757

With 42in. barrel, the breech engraved 'London', incised with initials IL, and stamped with London proof marks and the mark of Richard 1 Wilson (?), signed rounded lock, walnut full stock with raised apron at the barrel tang, regulation brass mounts, and iron ramrod, engraved with supplier's initials and number (fore-sight and forward sling swivel missing)
58¼in. overall

Provenance

Lord Lowther, Lowther Castle, Cumbria

Literature

W. Keith Neal and D.H.L. Back, Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, p. 54, plate 13

Lot Essay

This musket was part of a stand of some one hundred and twenty. The initials IL are almost certainly those of Sir John Lowther, Colonel of the Westmorland Militia, who perhaps wished to have his personal musket rifled so as to give greater accuracy

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