Product Details
EX WELLER COLLECTION
A GOOD AND RARE .750 FLINTLOCK MUSKET, MODEL 'VICTORIAN INDIA PATTERN BROWN-BESS', number 146,
manufactured 1837-38, with 39in. browned barrel, block fore-sight, ordnance stamps and moulded band at breech, solid top-tang, military style lock signed 'TOWER' on the tail and stamped with a 'V.R.' and crown device, walnut three-quarter stock with heavy brass furniture, the right hand side of butt with illegible varnished over gummed label, the trigger guard bow with collection identity disc (313) and iron swollen headed ramrod, provision for stirrup swivel at fore-end (absent), appearing little used with traces of original storage grease and complete with copies of papers dealing with its previous sale in 1995 and notes on the collection
Provenance: Previously sold Butterfield & Butterfield, 'The Estate of Jac Weller' sale, May 16th 1995, San Francisco
Other Notes: Victoria marked Brown Bess muskets are rare with very few being set up before the advent of the Pattern '39 percussion musket. The majority that were on hand were sadly destroyed by the Tower of London Armoury fire in 1841.
Jac and Cornelia Weller were American firearm historians and collectors from Princeton, N.J. who amassed a huge collection of fine mostly 19th century firearms. This piece could well represent a collector's only chance to obtain an unused Victoria marked Brown Bess
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Estimate £1,500-2,500