East India Company Sea Service Pistol (in three parts).
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East India Company Sea Service Pistol. This piece is currently dismantled. Lock missing. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27a. Restored in 2004-14 F1012a: original wooden stock F1012b: Repaired missing lock and re-converted to a flintlock (replacement cock, top jaw, top jaw screw, frizzed, frizzed spr...
Muzzle-loading, smoothbore, 5-bore. Pattern piece number 96 (engraved ‘96’ on the buttplate tang), made c.1852. Incorrect wooden ramrod. Total length: 73.5 inches. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27a. See Harding, D.F., Smallarms of the East India Company Volume II, p.365.
East India Company wallpiece converted to percussion
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Muzzle-loading, smoothbore, 5-bore. East India Company Pattern piece number 1 (‘No.1 WALLPIECE’ engraved on buttplate tang). Made by William Wilson as a flintlock in 1803; later converted to percussion ignition and rifled with two grooves c.1840-52. Incorrect wooden ramrod. Total length: 73 ...
War Department socket bayonet for the Pattern 1853 Rifled Musket (“the Enfield Rifle”). Unlike the other bayonets in this collection, this has no hilt, but merely a tubular socket. Consequently, when not attached to the rifle, it could not be used as a sword.
War Department sword bayonet for the Pattern 1855 Sapper Carbine (“Lancaster’s Carbine”). Blade with pipe back and spear point. Brass hilt with leather grips. Pommel marked ‘E.I.E.’, indicating issue to the East India Engineers (possibly the East India Company’s European engineer recruits in ...
Pattern 1860 sword bayonet altered for Martini-Henry rifle
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War Department production piece for the Pattern 1860 Short Rifle, later altered for the Martini-Henry Rifle by reducing the diameter of the muzzle ring by inserting a “bush”, and grinding down the pommel at the mortise slot (which has no forward extension).
War Department production piece for the Pattern 1853 Artillery Carbine. Inspector's stamp from Enfield (Royal Small Arms Factory) reads ‘E 8’. Mortise slot with short extension at front.
War Department production piece for the Pattern 1858 Artillery Carbine. At base of blade: inspector's stamp from Enfield (Royal Small Arms Factory) ‘E 41’; stamp with crown over ‘VR’. Mortise slot with no forward extension.