A 10-Bore Flintlock India Pattern Service Musket, Early 19th Century

With rebrowned sighted barrel and tang, border engraved rounded lock (cock and steel replaced) with 'VR' crowned and 'Tower' across the tail, figured three-quarter stock (some old bruising) with apron around the barrel tang, the butt on the right side stamped with Board of Ordnance ownership mark, '177' over '55' and the date 1841, and with inspector's marks and supplier's name 'Wheeler' behind the tang of the trigger-guard, regulation brass mounts, sling loops, and steel ramrod; together with a socket bayonet with blade of hollow triangular section (steel parts with some rust patination), indistinct King's proof marks (2)
99.5 cm. barrel