Beschreibung:

An extremely rare Pattern 1757 Sea Service musket in original flintlock configuration. Round, tapered iron barrel bearing centered Ordnance view and proof marks before breech, 42" long overall and of .79 bore. Flat lock with faceted, unbridled pan with engraved edge lines and marked “VERNON / 1758 vertically on tail of lock, with crown/GR before flat, reinforced cock and crown/broad arrow inspection stamp under the pan. Original English walnut fullstock, with inspection marks behind trigger guard and setup markings within ramrod channel. Brass mounts include flat buttplate, flat side plate, characteristic Sea Service trigger guard, and 3 ‘barrel’ pipes for the brass-capped, wooden ramrod. The musket is intact in original 42" barrel configuration as a “bright-finished” musket, the shorter, 37" barrel version being japanned or finished “black.” Standard arm issued out for Royal Navy vessel to arm boarding parties and marksmen. Sea Service muskets of this form were issued out to American provincial regiments in the French & Indian War and again in 1775, when 2,000 Sea Service muskets were shipped to Nova Scotia to arm the new-raised Provincial (Loyalist) corps and militia being and another 5,000 shipped to New York the following year for the same purpose. CONDITION: The ironwork of barrel and lock now a dark gunmetal shade with uniform, light freckling to the barrel and lock and light to moderate pitting around vent and pan area; the lock in good working order. The stock with the usual age dings and bruises, with a “pinwheel’ star incised on the left face of the buttstock, the wooden ramrod possibly a later replacement. JLK Name Value Accessories Barrel Length 42" Caliber/Bore .79 Smoothbore Drop at Comb Drop at Heel FFL Status Antique Length of Pull Manufacturer Vernon Model 1757 Sea Service Musket Paperwork Serial Number NSN