A RARE EAST INDIA COMPANY .65 FLINTLOCK SHORT CAVALRY CARBINE

CIRCA 1820-27

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A RARE EAST INDIA COMPANY .65 FLINTLOCK SHORT CAVALRY CARBINE
CIRCA 1820-27
With tapering sighted barrel with loop for a swivel ramrod, rounded Baker's Pattern lock with rampant lion company mark, walnut full stock, brass mounts including trigger-guard of Baker rifle type and butt-plate with regimental markings 'IV. LD F 2' on the tang, iron saddle-bar and ring, and associated iron ramrod, London proof marks, EIC inspection marks
21in (53.3cm) barrel

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Lot Essay

This is a rare example of the last type of flintlock carbine adopted by the East India Company. It is thought that fewer than 1,850 of this pattern of carbine were made. For further information see D.F. Harding, Smallarms of the East India Company 1600-1856, Volume II, pp. 222-224 (no example being known for illustration)

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