18 cm smooth brass barrel with octagonal breech ends and round tapering muzzles, bright flat lockplate with Spanish type Miquelet flintlock, rifled steeply angled frizzen, prominent external mainspring, unsigned, steel ramrod held by a single brass pipe and a sprung barrel band, spurred grip cap, trigger guard with stylised pineapple ferule, counter lockplates with long steel beltclip, mahogany wood fullstocks. Unembellished functional weapons made from the materials most resistant to the elements at sea. Kept in use until a percussion pistol came to replace it in around 1850, made about 1790, both locks in need of overhaul, condition III.

Category: Antique Weapons