A Rare London Volunteer Flintlock Baker Rifle. 45” overall, 29” carbine bore barrel with 7 groove rifling, London proofs, fixed rear sight, sword bayonet bar. Flat stepped bevelled lock with ring neck cock, semi-waterproof pan & roller on the frizzen spring, signed ‘Moss’. Walnut full stock with brass mounts comprising butt plate, oval wrist escutcheon, scroll trigger guard engraved ‘Clerkenwell Volunteers’ & three ramrod pipes. Two sling swivels, heavy flat ended ramrod.
Circa 1800-1810
In good condition, good bore.
Clerkenwell formed two Volunteers companies; the Clerkenwell Association in June 1798, and the Clerkenwell Cavalry August 1798. See ‘Rowlandson’s Loyal London Volunteers 1789-99’ Westlake pages 116 and 170.