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A Rare 10-Bore Flintlock 1779-S Pattern Short Land Musket For Line InfantryCirca 1780
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,750 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Rare 10-Bore Flintlock 1779-S Pattern Short Land Musket For Line Infantry
Circa 1780
Circa 1780
With russet sighted barrel and tang, border engraved rounded lock (cock replaced) with 'GR' crowned and 'Tower' across the tail, figured three-quarter stock (some old bruising) with apron around the barrel tang (old chip) and characteristic swelling at the rear ramrod-pipe, the butt cut 'XXVI' and stamped with indistinct marks on one side, regulation brass mounts, sling loops, iron ramrod, and socket bayonet (rust patinated) with blade of hollow triangular blade stamped 'Wooley Deakin & Co.' at the forte, King's proof marks and barrelsmith's mark, probably of Richard 1 Wilson (2)
106.5 cm. barrel
106.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
These muskets were supplied by John Pratt between April 1779 and July 1780. See De Witt Bailey. Ph.D., Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, pp. 58, 66 and 67, pls. 62 and 63




