Product Details
TULA ARSENAL, RUSSIA
A 13-BORE PERCUSSION MUSKET, MODEL 1840, serial no. 10211
dated for 1842 and adapted from the earlier 1808 pattern, with 41in, sighted round barrel, plain military pattern lock signed in cyrillic 'TULA' and the date '1842', walnut full-stock with raised cheek-piece on the left hand side, brass furniture, the heel plate deeply stamped with a Russian Imperial Eagle and the number '47755', finger-grooved trigger guard tang, sling-swivel forward of bow, serpentine side plate dated 1841, two brass barrel bands, one with swivel and a brass forend nose-cap, steel ramrod (tip missing), steel surfaces with light corrosion, some losses to woodwork.
Estimate £200-300