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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 15/03) Gurkha Model 1837 Brunswick Percussion .66” Calibre 2 Groove Rifle and Sword Bayonet. Sn - 21490
This is an original Gurkha model 1837 Brunswick percussion .66” 2 groove rifle complete with its original brass hilted sword bayonet and is part of the horde discovered in the old Palace of Lagan Silekhana in Katmandu, Nepal. This rifle and bayonet are in excellent condition with good wood and metal work, being manufactured at the state arsenal in Nepal. The gun has a steel back action lock plate with brass trigger guard, butt plate with a finger rest, fore end cap and barrel wedge plates. The musket is fitted with a 2 leaf rear sight, one of which is hinged and foresight together with its original mushroom head steel ram rod and 2 iron sling swivels. The musket measures 46 ½ inches in length with a 30 ¼ inch barrel where the 2 groove bore is clean with staining consistent with use. The trigger guard, inside the patch box and rear of the bayonet bar are engraved in Nepalese script as to the regimental issue. The musket’s cocking and firing action works crisply. The muzzle is fitted with a steel bayonet bar and is complete with its original brass hilted Nepalese model 1838 sword bayonet. The single edge blade has a short back edge and measures 67cm long with a 55cm blade. See pages 30 – 32 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. As an antique musket, no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21490
£0.00

SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 22/03) Cased C1860 English Form 6 Shot 120 Bore Double Action Percussion Bar Hammer Pepperbox Bar Hammer Revolver With Accessories. Sn 21532:1 - 21532:1
A very good pepperbox bar hammer revolver made circa 1860 in its later fitted case with accessories. The revolver measures 8" overall and the barrel cluster is 2 ¾” length. The steel frame and trigger guard are engraved with a foliate design. The grip frame and bar hammer also have engraved decoration. There are no visible manufacturer's marks on the pistol. The barrel cluster has English black powder proofs. The revolver has undamaged wood grips. The barrel’s bores are clean. It's cocking and firing actions work crisply. The pistol comes with its later fitted wood case. The case with hinged lid has a lock (key absent). The inside of the case is fitted and lined with green felt to hold the pistol and its accessories which consist of a small roll of lint, a quantity of moulded lead balls and an empty Eley brothers percussion cap tin with removable lid. The inside of the lid has a later William Egan Bradford trade label. The price includes UK delivery (NB As an antique percussion pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21532:1
£0.00

British, East India Company, Pattern A, Percussion .750 Calibre Muzzle Loading Percussion Carbine. Sn - 21531
This is a British East India Company Pattern A percussion .75” infantry percussion carbine. The carbine has a 27 ½ inch smoothbored barrel with London proof marks. The carbine has all original woodwork and fittings, a straight trigger guard, two rammer pipes, and a trigger guard sling swivel. The pattern A was made up of old flintlock parts and a nipple lump brazed to the barrel. this was modified in the pattern B where a complete new percussion breech section screwed on. The barrel is secured to the stock with pins. The lock plate is stamped with EIC’s Rampant Lion trademark and a crown over 8. The barrel has feint London proof marks and the stock is stamped to the right hand side with a feint roundel with what appears to be HA over P stamped within. The stock is also stamped near this with a 1 over T1. The left hand side of the stock is stamped with the number 58. The barrel carries the numbers 288 & 1176 stamped into it near the breech. The carbine measures 43 ½ inches in length with a 27 ½ inch barrel, the bore having just light staining consistent with age. The A pattern musket was produced in 1840 and a such has no rear or fore sights fitted. The cocking and firing actions work crisply. The stock has the usual knocks and bumps due to service use. Carbines such as this saw service and action in many Indian campaigns from 1845 including the 2nd Sikh War, and the Great Indian Mutiny it was used by both sides. Many of these muskets were returned to this country from the Nepal Royal Armoury. During the Mutiny, Nepal sent a contingent in support of the British on arrival in India they were armed with muskets such as this and upon return to Nepal together with Indian Mutineers who were disarmed and the weapons kept by the Nepal authorities for issue to its forces. This musket bears feint Nepalese regimental markings to the tang at the front of the butt plate, showing re issue to Nepalese troops. See pages 30 - 40 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading percussion musket and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21531
£695.00

C1840 English Form 18 Bore Percussion Overcoat / Traveling Pistol With Octagonal Barrel. A 1097 / 21532:2 - A 1097 / 21532:2
This is a English Form Percussion Overcoat / Traveling Pistol. The pistol measures 9 ¼” overall and has a 4 ¼” octagonal steel barrel. The barrel’s smoothbore is clean. The barrel has a bead fore sight. It has a steel trigger guard with extended tang and finial, steel ramrod flute. The has light foliate engraved decoration. It has its original walnut full stock which has knocks, bumps & bruises consistent with age. There is an old stable and secure crack on the left side of the stock at the muzzle end. The pistol has a small wood ramrod with brass end cap that unscrews to reveal a worm. It’s cocking and firing action work. The includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. A 1097 / 21532:2
£475.00

British East India Company Pattern C Percussion .750 Calibre Muzzle Loading Percussion Infantry Musket. Sn - 21530
This is a British East India Company Pattern C percussion .75” infantry musket. The musket has a 39 inch smoothbored barrel with London proof marks. The musket has all original woodwork with the correct Brunswick pattern scroll trigger guard, three rammer pipes, the unique pattern E.I.C. spring bayonet catch protruding through the nose-cap. The musket is complete with the correct and original E.I.C. pattern ramrod. The flat topped lock plate is stamped with EIC’s Rampant Lion trademark. The musket measures 55 inches in length with a 39 inch barrel the bore having just light staining consistent with age. The C pattern musket was produced between 1841 and 1842 and replaced the pattern B. The cocking and firing actions work crisply and the barrel is clean and has staining consistent with use. Muskets such as this saw service and action in many Indian campaigns from 1845 including the 2nd Sikh War, and the Great Indian Mutiny it was used by both sides. Many of these muskets were returned to this country from the Nepal Royal Armoury. During the Mutiny Nepal sent a contingent in support of the British on arrival in India they were armed with muskets such as this and upon return to Nepal together with Indian Mutineers who were disarmed and the weapons kept by the Nepal authorities for issue to its forces. This musket bears Nepalese regimental stampings under the trigger guard and on the top of the butt plate showing re issue to Nepalese troops. See pages 32 - 36 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading percussion musket and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 20530
£875.00

British East India Company Pattern E Percussion .750 Calibre Muzzle Loading Percussion Infantry Musket. Sn - 21529
This is a British East India Company Pattern E percussion .75” infantry musket. The musket has a 39 inch smoothbored barrel with London proof marks. The musket has all original woodwork with the correct Brunswick pattern spurred trigger guard, three rammer pipes, both sling swivels, the unique pattern E.I.C. spring bayonet catch protruding through the nose-cap. The musket is complete with the correct and original E.I.C. pattern ramrod. The pattern E introduced barrel keys or wedges to secure the barrel to the stock instead of pins. The lock plate is stamped with EIC’s Rampant Lion trademark with a double line border. The musket measures 55 inches in length with a 39 inch barrel, the bore having just light staining consistent with age. The E pattern musket was produced between 1842 and 1845 and was replaced with the pattern F. The cocking and firing actions work crisply. Muskets such as this saw service and action in many Indian campaigns from 1845 including the 2nd Sikh War, and the Great Indian Mutiny it was used by both sides. Many of these muskets were returned to this country from the Nepal Royal Armoury. During the Mutiny Nepal sent a contingent in support of the British on arrival in India they were armed with muskets such as this and upon return to Nepal together with Indian Mutineers who were disarmed and the weapons kept by the Nepal authorities for issue to its forces. This musket bears Nepalese regimental stampings under the trigger guard showing re issue to Nepalese troops. See pages 32 - 36 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading percussion musket and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21529
£875.00

Brace Of C1800 Period Composite Balkan / Turkish Ottoman Empire 16 Bore Flintlock Pistols With Ornate Brass & Silver Inlaid Wire Decoration. Sn 21393:56 - 21393:56
This is an attractive period composite pair of Balkan / Turkish Ottoman Empire 16 Bore Flintlock Pistols with some matching features. The pistols have obviously been put together in the period with contemporary alterations / additions to their brass fittings and decoration. They each have 11 ¾” long steel barrels with similar etched decoration near to the action. steel barrels. The barrels bores have staining & residue consistent with age and use. Their locks & cocks have similar foliate engraved decoration. The Walnut full stocks has polished horn fore end caps. The wood stocks have the knocks bumps and bruises to be expected of antique pistols of this age. The wood of each pistol stock has similar carved decoration and brass / silver wire inlaid decoration. They have similar ornate brass furniture including cudgel butts with hand tooled decoration. One pistol has ornate stock plate and trigger guard with extended tang and finial, the other’s stock plate has different foliate decoration and what looks like script letters (unknown language) and its trigger guard is plain. The top of each pistol wrist are mounted with un-matching escutcheons. Both pistols have short wood ram rods. Their actions work as they should. The price for this ornate, interesting pair of pistols includes UK delivery. NB As antique flintlock pistols no licence is required to own them in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21393:56
£975.00

**RARE**NAPOLEONIC WARS ERA**Imperial Prussian Model 1723 / 40 Potsdam Dragonergewehr (Dragoon / Mounted Infantry) .73 Calibre Muzzle Loading Flintlock Musket With Later Pre 1846 TY (County Tyrone) Irish Registration Marks. Sn 21521 - 21521
These days a 1723/1740 Potsdam Infantry Musket is a rare find, but the much less produced 1726 dragoon version ('Dragonergewehr") is exceptionally rare. The Dragoon musket is distinguished by the diamond shaped carvings on the stock instead of the rounded equivalent found on the Infantry model. When Frederick the Great came to the throne in 1740 he standardised the bore of the barrels of all service muskets at .73 and the length at 35". Existing .67 bore 41" barrels were either shortened or replaced, as seems perhaps to be the case with this .73 example. Also, here the "FR" Royal cypher on the brass thumb plate is an early impression and distinct from the later more common version. In addition, the forend has been shortened and the heavy iron ramrod discarded in favour of a wooden one. In 1726, when the Dragonergewehr was conceived, dragoons were purely mounted infantry and armed with what were essentially infantry muskets. However, by the 19th century dragoons had predominantly become cheap cavalry, and were armed with carbines or short muskets, rendering the original Dragonergewehr cumbersome and obsolete - with no lighter replacement available in the case of the Prussian army. This would account for the stock and ramrod modifications in an attempt to make the musket more fit for purpose. As the Royal Armouries at Leeds points out..."What happened in Prussia during Napoleon's invasion resulted in some wierd and wonderful things being cobbled together. Standardisation went out of the window and the Prussians turned up at Waterloo with many things, some standard issue, others not". In the campaign culminating with Waterloo in 1815, the Prussians mobilised everything they could - fielding some 115,000 troops and every available weapon. So it is highly likely that this particular musket would have been involved in the battles of Ligny and /or Waterloo. The musket's subsequent history is unknown, except that the barrel and butt plate display an Irish compulsory registration number for County Tyrone, indicating that for some reason it had made its way to Ireland before 1846 (illustrated in the images). Our example of the Dragonergewehr is in excellent condition. It has all original wood and brass fittings throughout. It has a heavy military cock, brass pan & the lock plate has the Potsdam arsenal mark. It has a small post fore sight and shallow groove action tang rear sight. The rifle’s wood ram rod has a brass cap and tip. The rifle’s cocking and firing actions work crisply. The smoothbore is clean. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading flintlock musket no licence is required to own this item if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21521
£1,795.00

**MINT BORE**Victorian British R B Rodda Gunmakers To His Excellency The Viceroy London & Calcutta Snider Action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express Obsolete Calibre Tiger / Lion Hunting Short Rifle / Carbine. Sn 21520 - 21520
R.B. Rodda claimed to have been established in 1830 although in reality it traces its roots much further back than that, to around 1805, originally trading as Brown and Cooper. This was the company that Richard Burrows Rodda joined in 1830, and although the history is a bit sketchy the company name probably became Brown, Cooper and Rodda at that time. In 1846 Brown left the company and it became Cooper and Rodda, and the following year in 1847 Cooper also departed leaving R.B. Rodda as the sole proprietor. Rodda renamed the company R.B. Rodda & Co. based at 36, Piccadilly, London. About three years after this R.B. Rodda & Co. opened another shop, this time in the Indian city of Calcutta at 5 ½ Tank Square, a place that would be renamed Dalhousie Square in 1872, with the result that the address of the company would become 7 & 8 Dalhousie Square. Prior to that however, around the time of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 Richard Burrows Rodda left India and migrated to the United States with most of his extended family. Sadly Rodda passed away that year and so the company was taken over by William Henry Taylor, who was the brother of Rodda’s brother in law. R.B. Rodda & Company became primarily exporters/importers of guns and rifles based out of their Calcutta premises throughout the period up until Indian Independence in 1947, at which point the business was sold to Indian industrialists who diversified it away from the gun trade and into marine and other engineering work. During the period in which they were trading R.B. Rodda & Co. became well respected for the quality of the guns and rifles they sold, and their guns came to be used not only in India but throughout the European colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya (Malaysia), and French Indo China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and Burma (Myanmar). This Snider action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express rifle made by R B Rodda, prominent London and Calcutta gunmakers of dangerous game rifles is in excellent condition. At only 39” overall and with a 21” barrel, this rifle weighs in at a mere 6 1/3 lbs. The top of the barrel is marked "R B Rodda & Co. Gunmakers to His Excellency The Viceroy. London and Calcutta". The barrel and action have proofs. The neat "bar-in-wood" style lock plate is border engraved and displays the signature "R B Rodda & Co". This rifle is clearly intended to be agile for sudden use in dense undergrowth or forest, where a Tiger would only become visible at close range, although it is fitted with triple leaf sights out to 300 yards. The bore of this Express Rifle is mint, and the rifling shallow - probably to reduce the torque effect at the wrist that more aggressive rifling would cause in a sporter of this weight, compromising aim. In any case, a rifle this light firing an express load would kick like a mule! From around 1870 the .577 BPE cartridge was considered the best load for dangerous game. The famous big game hunter John "Pondoro" Taylor, in his book "African Rifles and Cartridges", described the .577 BPE as the most popular cartridge for shooting Tiger in India and that professional Lion hunters in Africa generally preferred it to anything else. This particular rifle is a sturdy and unpretentious practical hunting weapon, having been purpose built as an express rifle to accommodate the 2 ½” BPE cartridge, rather than the standard 2” round which the many converted military Sniders used. This is an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21520
£1,375.00

SOLD SOLD (21/03) **QUALITY**C1840 J&E Peacock Bradford 54 Bore Percussion Overcoat Pistol With Brass Action & Screw Off Octagonal Steel Barrel. Sn 21393:55 - 21393:55
This is a good quality percussion overcoat pistol by J&E Peacock Bradford (we cannot find this gunmaker or retailer in our research books). It has a just under 3 ¼” turn off octagonal steel barrel. The barrel's smooth bore is clean. The overall length is 7 ½”. The underside of the brass action and barrel have black powder proof marks. It has a Dolphin hammer, concealed folding trigger and safety bolt. The action has foliate tooled decoration & the action tang is crisply signed ‘J&E Peacock Bradford’. It has an excellent undamaged walnut grip with finely chequered panels. The butt has a white metal patch box with hinged lid. The patch box has tooled foliate decoration. The cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price for this quality pistol worthy of further research includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21393:55
£0.00
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