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A Rare 26-Bore Flintlock Sporting Rifle Made For Presentation To Canadian Indian Chiefs

BY HENRY TATHAM, LONDON, CIRCA 1816

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A Rare 26-Bore Flintlock Sporting Rifle Made For Presentation To Canadian Indian Chiefs
By Henry Tatham, London, circa 1816
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel cut with ten grooves and with royal arms in platinum (replaced?) in a raised rectangular panel between two platinum lines at the breech, platinum-lined touch-hole, blued two-leaf back-sight, finely engraved shaped tang, signed case-hardened detented flat bevelled lock with safety-catch, stepped tail, roller, blued steel-spring, raised pan, and pierced cock (steel associated), figured walnut full stock (bruised) stamped with War Department marks, chequered grip, engraved blued iron mounts including patch-box cover decorated with a martial trophy, case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple finial, silver escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish, the butt stamped with the numbers '16' and '82', London proof marks, the barrel forged by William Fullerd
31in. (78.8cm.) barrel

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拍品專文

Henry Tatham, Sr. (1770-1835) was appointed Sword Cutler and Beltmaker-in-Ordinary to King George III in 1798, and Gunmaker to the Prince of Wales in 1799
This rifle is one of a series commissioned by the British Government for presentation to Canadian Indian Chiefs in order to foster their loyalty to the Crown. The largest surviving group of these rifles is in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, where two full-stocked examples are to be found. An example of the more expensive half-stocked rifles was sold from the W. Keith Neal Collection in these Rooms, 9 November 2000, lot 65 (£10,575 including premium)

For further information see Robert W. Band, 'Tatham's Indian Guns, A Gift for Mohawk Warriors', The Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, vol. 37, no. 1 ( February 1999), pp. 3-7