Product Details
TOWER ARMOURIES, LONDON
A RARE .650 FLINTLOCK RIFLED CAVALRY-CARBINE, MODEL '1803 'BAKER'', no visible serial number,
circa 1803, with round Baker-rifled 18 1/2in. barrel, small blade fore-sight and small notch rear-sight, hooked breech, small flat bevel-edged lock signed 'TOWER' to the stepped tail, a sliding safe behind the ring-necked cock and a 'G.R.' crown device below the semi rainproof pan, roller to the frizzen spring, walnut full-stock with raised cheek-piece (front of fore-end expert replacement), brass furniture of Baker style including hinged patch-box to right hand side, iron saddle-bar and ring (front retaining screw stripped) and captive iron pan-head ramrod, the whole an older refinish
Provenance: Referenced in British Military Flintlock Rifles 1740-1840 by D.W. Bailey, pgs. 122-124, 164 & 208.
On June 18th, 1803, the Master General requested E. Baker to make 40 rifled carbines for trials at Woolwich, to the same pattern that had been designed earlier by Baker for the 10th Light Dragoons. In July of the same year, Horse Guards ordered that ten men in each troop of the 14th & 15th Light Dragoons be supplied with this rifled carbine, giving a total of 80 carbines per Regiment. On the 26th of July, this order was increased to 100.
later in the August of 1803, the Commander-In-Chief ordered that rifled carbines be issued to the remaining Light Dragoon Regiments, although this order was not fulfilled entirely for a number of years, and possibly not by this model when it was finally achieved.
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Estimate £3,000-5,000