Original English Manufactured Model F Style Percussion Musket by Manton & Co. - Circa 1850 17th Century together with a photograph

together with a photograph

were delivered

As rumor has it

London & Calcutta

silver or tombac

Original English Manufactured Model F Style Percussion Musket by Manton & Co. - Circa 1850 17th Century together with a photographOriginal Item: Only One Available. Approved on April 2, 1845 was the Model F the 6th and final smoothbore Brown Bess style East India Company Musket made in percussion. The flintlock Brown Bess style musket had been obsoleted in the late 1830s and the percussion version introduced. What followed in the 1850s was the rifle musket in the smaller . 577 caliber whose paper cartridges were finished in a waxy fat compound that the Sepoy troops interpreted