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.
Breech-loading, rifled, 8mm Mauser calibre. Label reads, "This captured German rifle is presented by the National War Savings committee to the India Office". IOR L/R/7/382, #780-27.
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.
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.
East India Company pattern piece, imitating the Board of Ordnance Pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre. Iron stirrup hilt with leather-covered wooden grips. Knuckle bow engraved ‘CAVALRY SABRE PRESENT PATTERN 1813’. On one langet (flat projection of hilt near base of blade) is engraved ‘NO.3’ (an...
Muzzle-loading, rifled, approx .615in calibre. Pattern piece made c.1855 and submitted by Major J. Jacob (of the Bombay Artillery) to the Court of Directors of the East India Company for possible use in their armies. An inscription on the butt trap lid reads ‘MAJOR JOHN JACOBS PATTERN RIFLE O...
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 ...