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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.