A Rare French Charleville Naval Musket Pattern 1777 Corrected Year IX. 53” overall, 37 ½” barrel in .69 calibre, barrel breech with inspector’s mark & dated 1814. Rounded lock plate with ring neck cock, brass pan. Lockplate marked ‘Manufre. Imple de St.Etienne’ with inspector’s mark. Walnut full stock with scalloped butt, with iron & brass furniture comprising flat iron butt plate, trigger guard of iron & brass with sling swivel & finger ridges, 2 sprung brass barrel bands middle one with sling swivel, fore end band & side plate. Tulip ended ramrod & socket bayonet.
Dated 1814.
In good condition, barrel slightly shortened by about 2”, metal work in good condition, a few old wood worm holes.
See ‘French Military Small Arms’ by D. Bianchi pages 82-84 and ‘Borders Away II Firearms in the Age of Sail’ by W. Gilkerson, page 181