Flintlock gun
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1800 - 1900
Materials
silver, bone, gold, iron & wood
Measurements
180 mm (Width); 1600 mm (L)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108504
Summary
Flintlock gun, Sind, India, 19th century, the flintlock taken from an East India Company musket.
Full description
Flintlock gun, Sind, India, 19th century, the flintlock taken from an East India Company musket. Round iron barrel of Damascus twist construction, the breech chiselled and decorated with gold Damascene and formed with a raised flange incorporating a peep-hole sight. The muzzle facetted and decorated with gold damascene and with a bead fore-sight. The barrel retained to stock by 11 decorative brass barrel bands. The ramrod missing. Barrel length 118.7cm Calibre 15mm. Wooden full-stock with deeply curving butt of typical Sind region form. The butt and left side of the stock with decorative carving and inlaid with engraved bone. Horn butt-plate. Thin iron trigger guard with punched decoration, and iron trigger with curved tip. The forestock with 2 brass sling swivels, the engraved forward swivel holder retained by the barrel bands. English “Baker’s Pattern” flintlock with round section plate, a ring-neck cock and a “high hammer” frizzen. The plate stamped with the rampant Lion crest of the East India Company, together the viewer’s mark (the number 3 under a Crown). Retained to the stock by 2 side-nails Overall length 158.7cm
Provenance
Purchased in 1987 by the National Trust from Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000).
Marks and inscriptions
Lockplate: rampant Lion
References
Elgood, 1995: Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic World