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Lot 164

A .650 (18-Bore) Flintlock Volunteer Rifle Of Baker Pattern
By Staudenmayer, London, No. 141, Early 19th Century

10 November 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£3,000 - £4,000

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A .650 (18-Bore) Flintlock Volunteer Rifle Of Baker Pattern
By Staudenmayer, London, No. 141, Early 19th Century

With rebrowned leaf-sighted barrel signed along the tapering top flat at the breech, rifled with seven spiral grooves, and with a bayonet lug beneath the recessed muzzle, the rear of the breech engraved with a line of feathering, border engraved tang en suite and decorated with foliage, signed detented flat bevelled lock engraved with a starburst behind the pan and with ring-neck cock and roller, figured three-quarter stock (minor old repairs) with check-piece, brass mounts of regulation pattern comprising hinged rectangular patch-box cover with sprung button release-catch above, butt-plate, spur trigger-guard, fore-end cap and ramrod-pipes, brass barrel-bolt escutcheons, sling loops, and original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling towards the pierced tip, London proof marks
76.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Samuel Henry Staudenmeyer, former workman of John Manton, was gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. He is noted as a maker of rifles and repeating air weapons

Cf. a very similar example in the E.J. & R. Burton Collection and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour..., 26 November 2014, lot 439

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