Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A Volunteer 1858 Pattern bar-on-band short rifle, .577 barrel 33 in. with five-groove rifling, retained by two bands, stamped 'J' and 'EP' at the breech and numbered 173; stocked to within 1.25 in. of the muzzle with a steel nose cap, chequering at the fore hand and wrist, steel furniture including a trigger guard with a scrolling finger rest; border and acanthus engraved lock marked J Brazier to the inner side; jag head ramrod; together with a regular issue 1858 pattern sword bayonet. [2]

Name on lock may refer to Joseph Brazier, gunlock maker, listed by Blackmore at 37 Thayer Street Marlebone, aged 50 in the 1841 census.