An 18-Bore Flintlock Militia Musket by John Wilkins, Grantham. With sighted barrel engraved 'GRANTHAM' at the breech, plain tang, border engraved flat bevelled lock with 'GR' crowned and signed in capitals across the tail, figured three-quarter stock (some old bruising, old slender split along one side of the fore-stock) with apron around the barrel tang, brass mounts of regulation type comprising flat scroll side-plate, butt-plate engraved '4' on the heel tang, trigger-guard with acorn finial, and ramrod-pipes, brass escutcheon engraved 'B', a baron's coronet above, and original steel ramrod, Tower private proof marks; together with a contemporary socket bayonet with blade of hollow triangular section stamped 'DAWES' (2)

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One of a stand of similar muskets for a volunteer regiment raised by Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Browlow (1744-1807) of Belton House, near Grantham, Lincolnshire