A Very Fine Flintlock Paget Cavalry Carbine.
A Very Fine Flintlock Paget Cavalry Carbine. With round sighted barrel, baluster-moulded at the breech, with Tower military view and proof marks and stamped with a crown at the breech and with an “11” crowned above the touch hole, and with a fixed block “V” rear-sight on the tang, and a long, sloping, brass foresight. Plain, flat, bevelled, ring neck cock, plain, flat, bevelled, stepped, bolted 4½” lock with semi-waterproof pan, marked “GR” crowned, “Tower” on the tail, and with crowned broad arrow stamped horizontally below the pan, minor engraving on the pan bridle and on the tail of the lock, oval finial to the feather spring, and rounded toe to the frizzen. Figured walnut full stock, stamped with crowned broad arrow above “1805” on the right side of the butt, with the “BO” and broad arrow mark, “TH” and crowned “G” on the side-plate, and with crowned “9” twice behind the trigger guard tang. Regulation brass mounts comprising forend cap, butt plate, trigger guard with Baker style squared off front finial, the inside stamped with a crown, single, trumpet, ramrod pipe, original sling bar and ring, and original iron swivel ramrod stamped with a crowned “9” near the tip, crowned “13”, crowned “2”, and another stock-maker’s mark stamped in the ramrod channel, and the centre of the point of the rod drilled and tapped to receive attachments. Excellent working order and very fine, unissued, condition. Circa 1805.
Note: The Paget, or 1805 Pattern Short Light Cavalry, carbine takes its name from General Henry William Paget, Earl of Uxbridge and subsequently 1st Marquess of Anglesey, (1768-1854), who is credited, by a number of sources, with its design. He was Master General of the Board of Ordnance from 1827 to 1828, and from 1846 to 1852.
This carbine is almost certainly one of a number acquired as “new old stock” from Woolwich Arsenal when much of its contents was sold in the 1960s.”
Dimensions:
Bore:
Barrel Length: 15.75 Inches (
Overall Length: 31 Inches (
£4,500.00
1 in stock
