BY JAMES PURDEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1833
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A 16-Bore Chillingham Percussion Rifled Musket, No. 26
By James Purdey, London, circa 1833
With browned twist sighted barrel rifled with ten grooves, back-sight with two folding leaves calibrated to 200 yards, numbered case-hardened patent breech with pierced platinum plug and oval iron protective shield, numbered case-hardened tang, signed case-hardened lock, figured walnut three-quarter stock, cheek-piece, plain brass mounts including fore-end cap, horn-tipped hickory ramrod, and nearly all its original finish, Birmingham proof marks
34in. (86.3cm.) barrel
This is one of a unique stand-of-arms consisting of thirty-five weapons commissioned by the Earl of Tankerville of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, complete with bayonets and other accessories, to arm a body of yeomanry. Purdey completed the order between February 1832 and June 1833. The first thirty-three weapons are virtually identical and were supplied at a cost of /p10 each including bayonets. Numbers 34 and 35 were of higher quality priced at /p15 15s each, and were intended for use by Lord Tankerville and his son, Lord Ossulston. See L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, pp. 106-107, plates 92-93
By James Purdey, London, circa 1833
With browned twist sighted barrel rifled with ten grooves, back-sight with two folding leaves calibrated to 200 yards, numbered case-hardened patent breech with pierced platinum plug and oval iron protective shield, numbered case-hardened tang, signed case-hardened lock, figured walnut three-quarter stock, cheek-piece, plain brass mounts including fore-end cap, horn-tipped hickory ramrod, and nearly all its original finish, Birmingham proof marks
34in. (86.3cm.) barrel
This is one of a unique stand-of-arms consisting of thirty-five weapons commissioned by the Earl of Tankerville of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, complete with bayonets and other accessories, to arm a body of yeomanry. Purdey completed the order between February 1832 and June 1833. The first thirty-three weapons are virtually identical and were supplied at a cost of /p10 each including bayonets. Numbers 34 and 35 were of higher quality priced at /p15 15s each, and were intended for use by Lord Tankerville and his son, Lord Ossulston. See L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, pp. 106-107, plates 92-93