Barry Chisnall and Geoff Davies are researching for a new book on Cavalry Carbines & Pistols of the Napoleonic Era. This will cover carbines and pistols from around 1760 until 1820, including the Eliott carbine, the Harcourt & 1796 Heavy Dragoon Carbines, the Baker Cavalry Rifle and the Paget Carbine together with earlier carbine bore muskets for both heavy and light dragoons such as the Pattern 1779 Cavalry Carbine and the pattern 1770 Heavy Dragoon Carbine. Also, of course, pistols from that same era.

A New Zealand team is compiling a register of Calisher & Terry Carbines (and rifles).

They are seeking the Serial Number engraved on the trigger guard tang, marks on the butt tang and wooden butt, also the marks on the lock plate, plus any provenance. They would also appreciate images of lock plates and left and right sides of the complete carbine or rifle.

Researchers gathering data to be able to compile information pages on the small arms used by Military and Police in New Zealand (NZ).

This commences with Captain Cook’s arrival in NZ in 1769 and includes the arms used by the British (sea and land) Forces in NZ from 1835 to 1870 and including their arms used in the two NZ land wars 1845-47 and 1860-72.

Bill Curtis and De Witt Bailey have an ongoing research project concerning original Whitworth rifles. If you have access to ANY original hex bore Whitworth from the period 1857-1865 please note its serial number and letter for recording.

Send information to Bill Curtis: billcurtisra@yahoo.co.uk

Warning! - Notes regarding the following original Whitworth rifles; numbers 449, B376, C575

September 2011 NEWS: Now Published -
''British, Non-Ordnance, Military Carbines 1750-1900"

A book is in preparation for collectors and shooters. It will cover the large number of military style carbines, still in existence, which carry private proof marks from London or Birmingham and were not issued by the Board of Ordnance. These carbines were made for private sale to volunteers, officers, police, prison service, The East India Company, overseas military and many others.