A 16-Bore Light Dragoon Service by Baker. With plain barrel and tang struck with Birmingham proofs, flat bevelled lock with GR crowned signed BAKER across the tail, figured walnut full-stock with apron around tang, regulation brass mounts including side-plate and trigger guard. In untouched condition overall. 

BAKER

Ezekiel born 1758. Workman of Henry Nock (to whom formally apprenticed), 1785-7. Gun barrel maker, 8 Fieldgate Street., 1789-90. Gunmaker, 23 Little Alie Street., 1791-1804; 24 Whitechapel Road., 1804-23; also at Pall Mall, 1814. Proof House at Size Yard, Whitechapel Road., used special proof marks. Traded as Ezekiel Baker & son, 1823-36. Gunmaker to Ordnance from 1794; East India Co., 1803-22. Gunmaker in Ordinary George IV. His rifle adopted by British Army in 1800 and named after him. Author of Remarks on Rifle Guns 1801. Cavalry Rifle adopted, 803. Inventor of improved flintlocks, bayonets, bullet moulds and a gun ‘stocking machine’. Awarded silver medals by Royal Society of Arts, 1816, 1821-2. Died 1836. 

Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. 

Dimensions:

Bore: 16 Bore

Barrel Length: 9 Inches (23 cm)

Overall Length: 19 Inches (41 cm)