Original British East India Company Model A Converted Percussion Musket with 1812 Dated EIC Lock and EIC Proofed Barrel

Original Item: Only One Available. The Nepalese cache purchase of 2003 is truly the gift that keeps on giving, even after almost 20 years! This is a very interesting Musket that started life as a standard 39" barreled East India Company Flintlock Brown Bess, most likely of the 1771 "Windus Pattern". This was one of many cases where the EIC anticipated the changes that the British Army would take, as in 1796 they switched from the Short Land Pattern Musket to the "India Pattern", with the same 39 inch barrel. This example has a flat lock plate that bears a clear EIC "Rampant Lion" marking next to the hammer along with aa CROWN / 2 proof, and is clearly dated 1812 on the lock plate tail. There is some simple line engraving around the end of the lock, which is definitely of British manufacture, now converted to percussion. The filled holes in the lock plate where the frizzen spring and frizzen can still easily be seen. The barrel also bears clear British markings, including the CROWN / GP