In the early 19th Century, Great Britain was short of muskets to counter the "Invasion threat" from France, so did purchase so many thousand muskets from Belgium, made to the India Pattern I believe.
I am far from any books on this, and am poor at keeping it all in my head, but the above musket may well be one of these.
It looks well built and a good arm.
Sorry this is vague... Will come back with more details when I get at it.
Richard.
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