British East India Company "Model A" Style Musket with Bayonet & Scabbard

Original Item: Only one available. This is the only Model A type HEIC percussion style musket we have found from the legendary Nepal Cache. This Musket was most likely once a Model P-1771 East India Company Brown Bess that was then transformed to percussion as the first in the "A-F" Percussion Musket Series. A brief history of how this model came to being- The shortened 39” barrel Brown Bess musket was first developed and adopted by the EIC in 1771. This was a full 25 years before the Board of Ordnance in London followed suit with a 39" Brown Bess Musket dubbed the "India Pattern" in 1796. This is a testament that private enterprise has seemingly always got things done long before government bureaucrats. In 1839 the British Government officially adopted a converted to percussion Brown Bess musket (P-1796/39) but in the Great Fire of the Tower of London of 1841 over 400,000 of these converted Muskets were destroyed leaving the British Government very short handed. The result, once agai