These massive guns are sometimes listed as the "Pattern 96" and are essentially an intermediate arm between a musket and a piece of artillery. A stirrup mounted swivel would have been fitted through the hole in the forend and have allowed it to be fitted in place on a wall or ship deck. They were manufactured c. 1840-1852 for the British East India Company's private military operating on the Indian Subcontinent and other areas. It is essentially an enlarged smoothbore musket and has a blade front sight, four ramrod pipes, large lock with the EIC rampant lion emblem, London barrel proofs, and a Weller collection tag on the trigger guard. It weighs nearly 35 pounds.