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Made for the North Yorkshire Militia
BY WATTELL CLARK, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, CIRCA 1790
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A .75 FLINTLOCK SHORT LAND PATTERN MILITIA MUSKET
By Wattell Clark, High Holborn, London, circa 1790
With sighted barrel engraved 'London' (tang broken), signed rounded lock (top of jaw screw defective), walnut three-quarter stock (bruised, fore-stock cracked and chipped), regulation brass mounts including butt-plate engraved 'NY 107' on the tang, and iron ramrod (forward sling mount missing, iron pargs with surface rust and pitting, mainly on the barrel), Tower private proof marks, barrelsmith's mark SI
42in. (106.7cm.) barrel
By Wattell Clark, High Holborn, London, circa 1790
With sighted barrel engraved 'London' (tang broken), signed rounded lock (top of jaw screw defective), walnut three-quarter stock (bruised, fore-stock cracked and chipped), regulation brass mounts including butt-plate engraved 'NY 107' on the tang, and iron ramrod (forward sling mount missing, iron pargs with surface rust and pitting, mainly on the barrel), Tower private proof marks, barrelsmith's mark SI
42in. (106.7cm.) barrel
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