January 23rd 2016 Firearms Sale
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/22/2016
India Pattern Brown Bess flintlock musket made by Woolley, Sargent & Fairfax circa 1800. This musket has the standard India Pattern features that include a 39" barrel with bayonet lug that serves as a rudimentary front sight, lock plate with rounded tail and beveled front edge, reinforced hammer, convex brass side plate with no tail, brass trigger guard with simplified finial and two screws in the tail, two flared brass ramrod pipes and brass tail pipe and iron button head ramrod. The pin-fastened European walnut stock deviates from the traditional India pattern and has the low comb and brass buttplate with rounded tang found on the New Land Service Musket. The trigger has a thicker profile and tip than the triggers usually found on India Pattern muskets. The barrel, lock and hammer are browned and the stock is oil finished. The lock plate is stamped with the maker's name "WOOLLEY/SARGANT/&FAIRFAX" ahead of the hammer. The top of the barrel is stamped with the Tower and proof marks for private arms and the number "114". Overall, a nice clean contract Brown Bess type musket