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Lot 180

A Rare 14-Bore Commercial 1776 Pattern Volunteer Light Infantry Rifle, And A 32-Bore Flintlock Trade Musket
The First By Morris, Early 19th Century, The Second By Cooper & Goodman, Makers, Birmingham, 19th Century

25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

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A Rare 14-Bore Commercial 1776 Pattern Volunteer Light Infantry Rifle, And A 32-Bore Flintlock Trade Musket
The First By Morris, Early 19th Century, The Second By Cooper & Goodman, Makers, Birmingham, 19th Century

The first with octagonal barrel (worn, some pitting, sights replaced) rifled with seven square grooves, tang engraved with a slung bugle, border engraved flat bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned and signed across the tail, roller, figured full stock (some damage and bruising), regulation brass mounts (trigger-guard and patch-box cover missing), and later iron ramrod acting against a spring between the forward ramrod-pipes (stirrup ramrod missing), Tower private proof marks; the second with russet sighted barrel, plain tang, border engraved rounded lock stamped 'C&G' above an elephant and howdah mark, and 'Warranted' across the tail, figured three-quarter stock stamped with maker's name on one side of the butt and numbered '19' on both sides, brass mounts of regulation type (butt-plate incomplete), sling loop (the other missing), and iron ramrod (bent), Birmingham proof marks (2)
71.1 cm. and 115.4 cm. barrels

Footnotes

Henry Morris of Birmingham is recorded between 1804 and 1810. Cooper & Goodman are recorded at 32 Woodcock Street and 77 Baggot Street, Birmingham, between 1857 and 1886

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