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A Rare 20-Bore Flintlock Volunteer Rifle of Baker PatternBy Staudenmeyer, London, No. 61, Early 19th Century
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,000 inc. premium
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A Rare 20-Bore Flintlock Volunteer Rifle of Baker Pattern
By Staudenmeyer, London, No. 61, Early 19th Century
By Staudenmeyer, London, No. 61, Early 19th Century
With browned twist sighted barrel signed at the breech, rifled with seven grooves and with a lug for a bayonet beneath the recessed muzzle, the rear of the breech engraved with a line of foliage, case-hardened tang, and signed detented flat bevelled lock with ring-neck cock and roller, figured three-quarter stock with cheek-piece and open along the bottom of the fore-end, brass mounts of regulation pattern comprising hinged rectangular patch-box cover, butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, brass fore-end cap, steel sling loops, original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling towards the tip, and in fine condition, Tower private proof marks
76.2 cm. barrel
76.2 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Samuel Henry Staudenmeyer, former workman of John Manton, was gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. He is a noted maker of rifles and repeating air weapons




