Main Sale - September 2010 : Sale A1045 Lot 501
LACY & CO, LONDON A SCARCE .750 (REGULATION) SINGLE SHOT PERCUSSION MUSKET MADE FOR THE BANK OF ENGLAND, serial no. 118
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LACY & CO, LONDON
A SCARCE .750 (REGULATION) SINGLE SHOT PERCUSSION MUSKET MADE FOR THE BANK OF ENGLAND, serial no. 118
made in 1853, with 39in sighted barrel 'in the white' inscribed forward of the rearsight 'BANK OF ENGLAND', regulation pattern border-lined lock signed 'LACY & CO' , border-lined hammer, regulation full-stock of Patt.42 style, brass furniture, the heel plate numbered '118', three stock keys fixing barrel to forend (front swivel missing) fitted with 'Lovell's' bayonet catch and its original steel ramrod stamped 'R & W.A. (bruising to wood, spots of discolouration to iron parts)
Estimate £700-900