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191. Foster 1007

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1007
Title:
East India Company iron blunderbuss
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, flintlock ignition. Production piece set up by Henry Nock, 1803. Engraved ‘Bullion Office No.3’ on the brass sideplate, indicating that it was used to guard the East India Company’s bullion office in Leadenhall Street. Comb of cock broken, top jaw and screw missing. Ramrod an...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

192. Foster 1008

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1008
Title:
Board of Ordnance iron blunderbuss
Scope & Content:
Muzzle-loading, flintlock ignition. Board of Ordnance production piece, unused, and possibly bought by the East India Company as a specimen. Lock of “India Pattern” suggests a date of manufacture c1800. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-19.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1800
Extent:
1 Item

193. Foster 1009

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1009
Title:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol
Scope & Content:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol. Belthook and ramrod missing. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27a.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1836
Extent:
1 Item

194. Foster 1010

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1010
Title:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol
Scope & Content:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol. Belthook intact. Piece of brass pipe where ramrod should be. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27a.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1836
Extent:
1 Item

195. Foster 1011

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1011
Title:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol
Scope & Content:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol. Belthook intact. Ramrod missing. IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27a.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1836
Extent:
1 Item

196. Foster 1012

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1012
Title:
East India Company Sea Service Pistol (in three parts).
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819-1836
Extent:
1 Item

197. Foster 1013

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1013
Title:
East India Company percussion wallpiece
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 Item

198. Foster 1014

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1014
Title:
East India Company wallpiece converted to percussion
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803-1852
Extent:
1 Item

199. Foster 1015

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1015
Title:
Pattern 1853 socket bayonet
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 Item

200. Foster 1016

Reference (shelfmark):
Foster 1016
Title:
Pattern 1855 Sapper sword bayonet
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

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