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Featured Item. A Musket from Longleat House
26/06/2009
A Musket from Longleat House
Garth Vincent Arms and Armour Dealer are offering for sale this wonderful historic musket
An incredibly rare English musket by Harman Barne from Longleat House c. 1650. A musket with a barrel octagonal at the breech, then 16-sided and finally round to the muzzle, 42 inches long and of 11 bore. It has a London view mark, the makers mark TG and an armory number 17.
The flat lockplate is secured by three screws and the initials HB stamped on it could be those of Harman Barne.
There is no butt-plate, side plate or tailpipe and the two brass ramrod pipes are plain.
A neat but plain shell is carved behind the barrel tang. This musket came from the armoury at Longleat.
Perhaps Harman Barne made this musket soon after he started working in London (1635 – 1670). However, it is highly unusual for these military locks to bear the initials of the maker. Barne is recorded as gun maker to Prince Rupert at the time of the English Civil War.
This gun is featured in W. Keith Neal and D. H. L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, pg. 108 plate 25.
