Victorian ‘East India Company’ Combination Tool for Percussion Rifles and Muskets. A 1096. Victorian ‘East India Company’ Combination Tool for Percussion Rifles and Muskets. A 1096. Antique & Militaria

A rare percussion era combination tool for the Enfield rifle used by the East India Company. The East India Company (EIC) was English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies This tool incorporates a nipple pick and nipple wrench, two screwdrivers, one of which is “scooped” so that it may be used on the typical East India Company pattern ‘bun nut’. The third arm is threaded and probably held a worm or wiper, now missing. The price includes UK postage. A 1096.