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1. Foster 981-1033

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 981-1033
Title:
F981-1033 India Office Weapons. This collection contains guns, bayonets, swords, a sword bag and a medal. These 53 items were formerly kept in the I ...
Scope & Content:
F981-1033 India Office Weapons. This collection contains guns, bayonets, swords, a sword bag and a medal. These 53 items were formerly kept in the India Office building in Whitehall. Some of the weapons in the collection were production pieces as made in quantity and used in India, while oth...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1780-1940
Extent:
53 items

2. Foster 999

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 999
Title:
Jacob’s Rifle
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, rifled, .526in calibre. Production piece. These double-barrelled rifles were procured through the Secretary of State for India for use in Jacob’s Rifles (a Bombay native infantry regiment of two-battalion strength), but were withdrawn after only a few years’ use.. Lockplates m...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 Item

3. Foster 991

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 991
Title:
Prince’s carbine
Scope & Content:
Breech-loading, rifled, calibre approx. .56in. Civilian production piece, possibly bought as a specimen by the Secretary of State for India (although not marked as such). Prince’s carbine was one of several designs of percussion “capping breechloader” considered for issue to British cavalry i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 Item

4. Foster 992

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 992
Title:
Terry’s carbine
Scope & Content:
Breech-loading, rifled, .577in calibre. Civilian production piece, possibly bought as a specimen by the Secretary of State for India (although not marked as such). Terry’s carbine was one of several designs of percussion “capping breechloader” considered for issue to British cavalry c1855-60, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1850s
Extent:
1 Item

5. Foster 1033

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1033
Title:
Sword bag
Scope & Content:
Of painted black cloth with chamois leather lining. This bag would have accommodated a sword of roughly the same size as F1024 and F1025 and may possibly be associated with one of these pattern pieces (a pattern which is known to have been procured complete with “bags”). Swords for officers, w...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 Item

6. Foster 1002

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1002
Title:
Double-barreled Minié rifle
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, rifled, .758in calibre. East India Company pattern piece number 87 (engraved ‘87’ on buttplate tang). Purchased from the Board of Ordnance by the East India Company c.1854 as a specimen but never put into production. Swivel rammer. Adjustable backsight. Total length: 41.75 i...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 Item

7. Foster 988

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 988
Title:
Pattern 1865 Sergeants’ Fusil
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, smoothbore, .656in calibre. This is a duplicate War Department pattern piece manufactured at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, in 1865, for the Secretary of State for India. An inscription stamped on the side of the butt reads ‘‘Duplicate’ … Fusil Serjts With Heavier Barre...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
1 Item

8. Foster 990

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 990
Title:
Pattern 1855 Sharps’ Carbine.
Scope & Content:
Breech-loading, rifled, .577in calibre. East India Company pattern piece number 121 (‘121’ engraved on buttplate tang). This carbine is one of 6,000 ordered from the U.S. manufacturers Robbins & Lawrence by the War Department in 1855. It was evidently sold to the East India Company c1856...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

9. Foster 993

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 993
Title:
Pattern 1858 Sapper Carbine
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, smoothbore, .656in calibre. War Department pattern piece manufactured at the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, in 1859, for the Secretary of State for India. Lockplate marked ‘Enfield 1859’. An inscription stamped on the side of the butt reads ‘SAPPER CARBINE FOR E.I.Gt .656 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1858-1859
Extent:
1 Item

10. Foster 995

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 995
Title:
Pattern 1861 Cavalry Carbine
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, rifled, .577in calibre. War Department production piece made at Enfield, possibly bought as a specimen by the Secretary of State for India (although not marked as such). Lock marked ‘ENFIELD 1861’. Swivel rammer present, but hinge pin missing. Bar and ring at side. Adjustabl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 Item

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