Lot Essay
For a similar officer's fusil by W. Heriot cf. The Swords and The Sorrows, National Trust Culloden 1996 No.5.7
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A SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK MUSKET
MID 18TH CENTURY
By W. Heriot, Edinburgh
With full-length walnut stock, with brass furniture, plain steel lock inscribed W. Heriot, the brass butt plate engraved with a trophy or arms and foliated scrolls, with applied rococo cartouche initial plate and with a hatched band with replacement ramrod
46½in. (118cm) overall
MID 18TH CENTURY
By W. Heriot, Edinburgh
With full-length walnut stock, with brass furniture, plain steel lock inscribed W. Heriot, the brass butt plate engraved with a trophy or arms and foliated scrolls, with applied rococo cartouche initial plate and with a hatched band with replacement ramrod
46½in. (118cm) overall