Original British East India Company Percussion Pattern 96 Wall Gun with Swivel Mount c.1840-1852 Martini-Henry Parts Overall length 20

Overall length 20

This helmet is stamped 520Awhich indicates the approximate manufacture date of April 1943

According to the estate it was made sometime between 1910 and 1920 for personal use in that it bears the initials PF

but the gunome midare (irregular zig zag) shaped hamon is still clear

Numerous EMPs have been found in the last-stand battlefields of the SS Charlemagne division

Original British East India Company Percussion Pattern 96 Wall Gun with Swivel Mount c.1840-1852 Martini-Henry Parts Overall length 20Original Item: One of a Kind. These are really rare and hardly ever encountered. Wall guns were large caliber smooth bore muskets that were used in the 16th through 18th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. They were too heavy to be fired from the shoulder and so were usually rested on window ledges or low walls, hence the name. Officially ordered by the BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY this is a fine example in approximately