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A Highly Unusual 25-Bore Flintlock Volunteer Rifle Of Baker Pattern With Left-Hand LockBy Brander & Potts, 70 Minories, London, Circa 1815
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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A Highly Unusual 25-Bore Flintlock Volunteer Rifle Of Baker Pattern With Left-Hand Lock
By Brander & Potts, 70 Minories, London, Circa 1815
By Brander & Potts, 70 Minories, London, Circa 1815
With browned twist barrel (one lug missing) with sighting flat along its entire length and rifled with seven grooves, blued folding leaf back-sight and silver fore-sight, border engraved breech with maker's address and gold-lined touch-hole, case-hardened border engraved tang decorated with a martial trophy, signed detented border engraved case-hardened flat bevelled lock decorated with a starburst behind the semi-rainproof pan and with a martial trophy on the stepped tail, 'French' cock en suite and with safety-catch behind, roller, figured full stock with cheek-piece, brass mounts of regulation pattern comprising hinged rectangular patch-box cover engraved with a British Rifleman firing his rifle at a figure in medieval costume and armed with a rapier (possibly representing a Frenchman), butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, brass ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, sling loops, original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling towards the tip, and in fine condition, London proof marks
75.5 cm. barrel
75.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Provenance:
Ex W. Keith Neal Collection
Martin Brander and Thomas Potts are recorded at 70 Minories and Goodman's Yard between 1802 and 1827




