A RARE .65 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK VOLUNTEER RIFLED CARBINE WITH ENCLOSED LOCK BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, LOND

A RARE .65 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK VOLUNTEER RIFLED CARBINE WITH ENCLOSED LOCK BY HENRY NOCK, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1800 with two-stage sighted twist barrel rifled with seven Baker-style grooves, the muzzle with bayonet bar on the right, octagonal patent breech signed 'H. Nock Patent', engraved with a band of foliage, struck with proof marks beneath and numbered '46', patent bevelled lock signed 'H. Nock' in script and with a sunburst at the front, figured walnut full stock (fore-end repaired), the butt with an early padded leather cheek-piece, struck with inspector's mark opposite the lock and the initials 'WT' in the ramrod channel and numbered '136' in the barrel channel, regulation brass mounts comprising trigger-guard, butt-plate engraved 'No. 46' on the heel, Baker pattern trap cover on the right of the butt, two ramrod-pipes, iron sling loops, and original iron ramrod, with an early iron charge measure 66.5 cm; 26 1/4 in barrel Rifled carbines of this type were produced by Henry Nock on a commercial basis for the London & Westminster Light Horse Volunteers and other Volunteer Companies. See Paine 1996, pp. 111-115.