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RARE!!, Ketland & Co., England, Model: York city militia musket, Cal: .75, MFG: Circa. 1794, S/N: 107 (rack number on barrel), Flintlock musket, 42 1/4'' barrel.

HISTORY: This is a commercial made musket, which was bought by the York city government to arm its militia. It was made by Ketland & Co., a private company, not a Military arsenal, but was patterned off the Military short land pattern brown Bess. It has pre 1800 proof marks on the barrel used on Commercial sporting arms & specifically Ketland made rifles, he has a private proof house in Birmingham, this stamp would form the basic shape of the 1813 Birmingham proof. These proofs were used from 1750-1800. More of the story can be told with markings on other similar rifles. In a article from Man at Arms, Letters to the experts from September-October 1984, where a person describes this exact musket having the ''Ketland & Co'' on the lock & a ''Y+C/ 186'' stamp in the same spot as this musket. He describes on his gun, the brass oval escutcheon on the top of the wrist was marked ''G. Ellis, York Voluntr. 1794''. In the Dixie Arms catalog of 1976 shows guns like this & states they imported 28 of them. Dixie would advertise one marked ''Y+C/12'' on the stock & engraved ''1794'' on the wrist escutcheon (GR 4-96, Pg 11). That would date this gun to around that time as well. In an article of Arm Collecting (Vol. 33 No.1), there the article ''Muskets for the blues of York, 1745'' by Ross Egles, Ross shows & talks about a R. Walkin musket from around 1745 with the same style of ''Y+C'' marking & confirms its for York city & not York castle, which was believed for some time. This gun comes out of the Famous Mike Carrick Collection & will come with a bunch of more information & research documents from Mike connecting everything together.

CONDITION: The straight wrist walnut stock is very good with various nicks, dings, dents, & scratches from use/age. There is a couple chip repairs on the left of the stock, just in front of the flat section above the trigger. Stock has shrunk over the years & metal is proud to wood in spots. The rear barrel lug block is missing. The left cheek of the stock is stamped ''Y+C'' over ''110''. The metal has been polished clean as some point. Metal is bare steel with roughness & spots of patina. the top of the barrel is marked with a worn ''107'' marking. The rear of the barrel has two Ketland proof stamps. The lock plate is marked ''KETLAND'', ''& Co.''. The bore is poor, dark with rust & pitting. The barrel holds a square front sight. Thew stock carries a brass buttplate, has ding marks & patina. The musket has the rear sling loop, & the front loop is missing with a hole through the stock where it was. Musket also has the ramrod. Antique/Muzzleloader, No FFL Req - Value: 2000 to 4000

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RARE!!, Ketland & Co., England, Model: York city militia musket... Item # 4417 This auction is over. No new bids can be placed. Price: US $1000

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