British TOWER Marked Antique INDIA Pattern BROWN BESS .75 FLINTLOCK Musket NAPOLEONIC WARS Era Musket with “GR” ROYAL CIPHER

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British TOWER Marked Antique INDIA Pattern BROWN BESS .75 FLINTLOCK Musket

NAPOLEONIC WARS Era Musket with “GR” ROYAL CIPHER

Here we present an antique Brown Bess Composite Flintlock Musket made in London, England circa 1793 to 1815. This is an India Pattern musket, nicknamed the “Brown Bess”. This was the standard weapon for ordinary soldiers in the British infantry. It is called the India Pattern because it was originally designed to arm the private army of the Honorable East India Company, which governed India until the Mutiny of 1857. It was very similar in form to an earlier type of musket known as the Short Land Pattern, which was introduced in the early 1740s for cavalry soldiers known as “dragoons”.

This pattern of Brown Bess is the same that fought Napoleon Bonaparte in numerous iconic battles, as well as the United States and their American Indian Allies during the War of 1812. This pattern may also correctly be called the “India Pattern” since the Honorable East India Company was the entity responsible for this update to the gun that had been around since 1722. When war with France loomed on the horizon, the British Board of Ordnance diverted these muskets from the EIC contract to supply the war effort. The success of this model can be gauged by the fact that between 1793 and 1815, nearly 3,000,000 guns were produced. Although the Birmingham gun trade was responsible for the majority of the production, the London gun trade played a part, through gun makers such as Ezekial Baker, William Parker, Thomas Reynolds, and Durs Egg. According to the London proof-house records, they and others in London were responsible for producing 845,477 muskets.

Overall condition is fair to good. Dark patina throughout. The action is strong. The bore is smooth and patinated. The stock has been extensively repaired at the wrist and has a graft just forward of the middle ramrod tube, along with other small repairs. You can see the ramrod where the thin part of the stock gave way behind the rearmost ramrod tube. The escutcheon on the top of the wrist is unit marked “K/2”. A great piece of British history!

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Barrel is 42 inches.

Caliber: .75 Flintlock

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2200
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