British CarbineCollection

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Dragoon Carbine by I. Cole

c.1750, and cut down from a SeaService musket for cavalry use it isthought to have been used in theAmerican War of Independence

Featured in ‘British Non Ordnance Military Carbines 1750-1900’p 25 and also for similar Carbines (Musketoons) see:‘The History of Weapons of the American Revolution, by GeorgeC Neumann, p 121The Book of the Continental Soldier, by Harold L Peterson, p 45

PRICE £1,500

Volunteer Elliot StyleCarbine c1815

This carbine has a repaired crackacross the wrist. Clean smoothbore. PRICE £650

Ordnance IssuePaget Carbine

c. 1825

This carbines is featured in ‘British CavalryCarbines & Pistols of the Napoleonic Era’ p184. It has been made like most Pagets fromparts and converted from flintlock topercussion in the 1840’s. Subsequently re-converted to flintlock more recently. Goodbore. PRICE £2,000

Paget CarbineConverted to Percussion & Rifled c. 1845

Marked to the Queens Own RegimentWorcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry

This carbines is featured in ‘British CavalryCarbines & Pistols of the Napoleonic Era’p 185. Shoots well, see also Chapter 12 ofthe book.

PRICE £1,200

Victoria Carbine2nd Model c.1844

Marked to the 2nd Dragoons(Royal Scots Greys)

Some modern repairs to the stock with fillerbut nevertheless a good example of this rareCrimea cavalry carbine.

PRICE £ 1,400

Pattern 1844Yeomanry Carbine

Marked to the Derbyshire Yeomanry CavalryRepton & Gresley troop

A good example of the Yeomanry carbine withregimental provenance. Clean smooth bore.

PRICE £1,000

Cavalry Carbine c. 1849retailed by Garden for the

3rd Punjab Cavalry

Featured in ‘British Non Ordnance MilitaryCarbines’ p 57. This carbine is typical of anumber of short swivel carbines, retailed byGarden for Irregular cavalry regiments inBengal, the Punjab, Poonah and Scinde.PRICE £ 850

Double Barrel Carbineby Swinburne, 1853

Marked to theScinde Irregular Horse

Probably the most famous Irregular Indiancavalry regiment were issued with thisdouble barrel smoothbore carbine, with goodbarrels. PRICE £1,800

Enfield / Westley Richards1865 ‘Monkey Tail’ Carbine

Rare Ordnance Westley Richards carbine,complete with cleaning tools in the butt trap.Good shooting bore.

£ 1,950

Enfield Bengal CavalryCarbine 1867

One of the smooth bore carbinesproduced by the Ordnance to armnative troops after the Mutiny.

PRICE £ 650

Snider Enfield Cavalry CarbineFirst Model II** c.1869

This label wasstuck to the butt ofthe gun when Iacquired it.

The first model of the P61 carbine to be converted to Snider breechloading. This carbine has a Zulu War provenance as shown by the labelattached stating that it was handed over when Chief Skobobo’s (?) Zuluswere disarmed. Good shooting bore. PRICE £ 750

1880 Martini HenryMk 1 Cavalry Carbine

De-activated Martini Henry cavalry carbinemarked to the North Devon YeomanryPRICE £ 550