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Lot 437*

A Rare .650 Flintlock Baker Service Rifle
Early 19th Century

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Rare .650 Flintlock Baker Service Rifle
Early 19th Century

With russet sighted barrel (folding leaf sight replaced, some light pitting) rifled with seven grooves and adapted for a socket bayonet at the muzzle, plain tang, flat bevelled lock (cock replaced) with 'GR' crowned and 'Tower' across the foliate engraved tail, figured three-quarter stock (some old bruising and staining), the butt with cheek-piece and stamped with Ordnance Storekeeper's mark in front of the patch-box, and with small inspector's marks behind the tang of the trigger-guard, regulation brass mounts comprising butt-plate incised 'P.R.13.' on the heel tang, rectangular hinged patch-box cover, spur trigger-guard, vacant brass escutcheon, ramrod-pipes, replacement sling loops, and later steel ramrod, King's proof marks; together with a brass-mounted powder-flask for long arms, by Dixon & Sons, mid-19th century, with bag-shaped copper body embossed with a scallop shell on each side, brass top with adjustable nozzle, four split-rings for suspension, and retaining its green woollen suspension cord (one tassel missing) (2)
The first 76.8 cm. barrel, the second 20.3 cm. high

Footnotes

See Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, 1961, p. 125, pl. 33 (4)

Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour, 30 April 2014, lot 283

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