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See Also 1832 New Land Sergeant's Pattern.

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 1802 New Land Pattern

OA 525mm Bl 432mm Sl 75mm Mrd 23mm Sm 36mm Bw 29.5mm

  

New Land pattern shoulders.

 

Side profile of New Land pattern spring.

The blade is marked 'I.SALTER',  this is John Salter [2],  35 Strand, London, noted between 1800-23. Blade also marked with BO inspection mark of 'Crown' over '29'.

   

 

Socket marked to 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards weapon 292.

(1)Treaty of Amiens

(2) The Brown Bess Bayonet 1720-1860 by Graham Priest, page 150 , ISBN 0-946696-05-5

(3) British Military Firearms 1650-1850 by Howard L Blackmore, page 181,  ISBN 1-85367-172-X

The New Land pattern musket was designed during a brief period of peace[1] in the Napoleonic Wars,  to replace the India Pattern musket.  However the peace was brief and only a small number could be produced in period 1802-03,  and again in 1812-15.  Also in the fire at the Tower of London in 1841,  large quantities of New Land and India Pattern muskets were destroyed (along with a large quantity of newly produced percussion arms).  The result of this for the collector today is that these are a very scarce bayonet.
In January 1838[3],  800 New Land Pattern muskets were converted to percussion and issued to the Guards for climatic tests in Canada.