Original British Napoleonic Officer's Spontoon Spear Cut Down to 43" - Board of Ordnance Marked British Artwork & Posters continued in "a north easterly

continued in "a north easterly direction

5mm holes drilled in the body - one found just below the safety interrupter

Original Item: The first British Percussion Military Rifle to succeed the famous BAKER Flintlock Rifle of the Napoleonic era was originally intended to have eleven groove rifling

McCully – Little Rock

44-40 Winchester cartridge

Original British Napoleonic Officer's Spontoon Spear Cut Down to 43" - Board of Ordnance Marked British Artwork & Posters continued in "a north easterlyOriginal Item: Only One Available. This was released from a Regimental Museum upon closing down and had been previously on display in the Officer's Mess. It is a "SPONTOON", a long spear carried into battle very often by an Officer or Senior Sergeant, and became very handy for removing a French Cavalryman from his horse. That may be the case but its real purpose was to show the soldiers "on the line" where their commander was in all the smoke and