This post-Revolutionary War carbine is pictured and discussed on pages 258-260 of "American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume I: Colonial and Revolutionary War Arms" by George Moller and has his small "GDM" collection marking by the toe. He notes: "In 1759 Colonel George A. Elliott raised the Fifteenth Light Dragoons. The following year a carbine was designed for this unit and named after him. In June 1773 the Elliott carbine was adopted by the Ordnance as the regulation arm of all the light dragoons." It has a front sight that doubles as the bayonet lug, Ordnance marks on the breech, a simpler stamped Georgian cipher and "TOWER" marks on the lock along with lined borders that differentiate the 1799 pattern from the 1773, a sling bar on the left that extends down below the forend and is secure through the stock, brass remaining furniture, ramrod that locks onto the forend cap via a groove, and an oil finished walnut stock with Ordnance marks. We have not disassembled the carbine, but Moller notes that the barrel is marked "WROCK" on the bottom and notes the W. Rock was active in Birmingham c. 1795 and indicates the inside of the lock is marked "WHEELER," likely for Robert Wheeler & Son of Birmingham. Includes a socket bayonet. Provenance: The George Moller Collection

Fine overall with gray and brown patina on the iron, aged patina on the brass furniture, mild dents and scratches on the reoiled stock, and general minor wear. Mechanically fine.