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A .750 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK CARBINE

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A .750 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK CARBINE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, of regulation type, with tapering barrel struck with Ordnance marks at the breech and on the tang, border-engraved rounded lock struck with ~Tower~ on the tail, with ~GR~ crowned beneath the pan, and with government ownership broad arrow, fitted with ring-neck cock, full stock with inspector~s stamps opposite the lock and Ordnance mark on the right of the butt, brass mounts including two ramrod-pipes, iron sling mounts and iron ramrod, 66.7 cm barrel¦¦Provenance¦Robin J. Wigington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire¦¦The configuration of this carbine has a number of similarities with the 1796 pattern for dragoons.