Original British East India Company Model F Percussion Musket- Circa 1840 British Military Hats most show minimal wear but

most show minimal wear but were never the less made surplus due to the "one helmet per head" policy of modern day government administrations

This is the cover that was used to carry the Vietnam Era Entrenching tool with the Pick Head attachment

The underside of the feed tray-ejector has a series of concentric recesses into which the inner and outer sear springs of the trigger mechanism seat

Officially obsoleted in 1954

Original British East India Company Model F Percussion Musket- Circa 1840 British Military Hats most show minimal wear butOriginal Item: Official records tell us that the British East India Company procured or made no Flintlock Muskets after the late 1820s and it appears they were very swift to take advantage of the newest in firearms technology the percussion ignition system. In 1840 the HEIC began producing the world's very first massed produced percussion muskets one of which later became known as the EIC Model "F". A brief history of how this model came to being The