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Description: | [Register "These firearms were purchased with a view to protecting the Nottingham Gas Works against any attack which might be made upon them by the Chartists. 1832-48"], From old card index - Blunderbuss; flintlock, wide mouthwed steel barrel, breech-end octagonal, wooden stock reaching to muzzle, lock plate engraved with the name of maker 'MABSON, LABRON & MABSON'; trigger guard, butt plate inlaid in grip; wooden ramrod with brass end. On top of barrel is mounted a spring bayonet which folds back and is released by a trigger. Stamps on barrel, crossed sceptres surmounted by a cross and the letters B.P.C.' the same device without the letters. English, early 19 century. Overall length; 76.5 cms.; 30 in. Bore; 1 13/32 in.; 36mm.; at muzzle. Barrel; overall length; 36 cms. Iron barrel, octagonal at breech, becomes round 9 cms from breech and is strongly flared at muzzle. Birmingham proof marks on left hand side of breech; spring bayoney catch at muzzle which has come off but which is on the bayonet. Iron barrel tang engraved with straight line and 'V' design, sliding bayonet catch on tang with lightly engraved head. Lock; flintlock, screw attached to cock lock plate, missing. Plate marked 'Mabson, Labron & Mabson' , and engraved with foliage and radial design. Semi-waterproof flashpan, roller bearing on frizzen spring, light foliage engraving on cock body; line engraving on frizzen. Stock & furniture; Walnut full-stock, brass mounted. Tang of butt plate engraved with foliage, brass escutcheon on wrist (oval); brass trigger guard foilage engraved, having shaped tang at muzzle end. Brass mount for ramrod where it enters stock; wooden ramrod with brass cap on head, overall length 28.5 cms. Two iron barrel pins, spring bayonet, 27.5 cms. triangular blade which is fluted and mounted on top of barrel. Pair to 30.43. Ramrod pipe, screw on end of ramrod both missing.,
Accession number: NCM 1930-42 | Subjects: | firearms (antique) British arms and armour | Temporal: | 1800-1830 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | maker Mabson | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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