An 18-Bore Flintlock Paget Cavalry Carbine by Wheeler. With round sighted barrel, plain tang without back-sight, stepped bevelled lock signed 'WHEELER' and with open-necked cock and fitted with sliding safety catch, figured full-stock stamped with makers marks 'TT' and 'W', regulation brass mounts comprising butt-cap, trigger guard and ramrod pipes, stirrup ramrod, Birmingham proofs. 

Wheeler, Robert [1767-1813]

Shop in London. Made box lock flintlock pocket pistols with under spring bayonet, and flintlock duelling pistols. Also made brass barrel flintlock blunderbusses. Under Royal Government contract made flintlock holster pistols and musketoons. Had contract with the Hudson Bay Company for flintlock trade muskets. Name changed to Wheeler & Son, 1813 to 1830. 

A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. 

WHEELER 

Robert Gun and Pistol Warehouse, 16 Staining Lane, Cheapside, 1805-8. Probably the Birmingham gunmakers, 1799-1813. With his son, John, became Robert Wheeler & Son, 1814-43. Appointed Patent Safety Gun Makersin Ordinary to George IV. They made the cased shotgun with the safety device patented by Revd. John Somerville in 1824 (No. 5026) Presented by Somerville to the Kind in June 1828 (Carlton House Inv. No. 3332). 

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

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