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Lot 362

A 120-Bore Plain Rifle
19th Century

27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £384 inc. premium

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A 120-Bore Plain Rifle
19th Century

With browned octagonal sighted barrel rifled with six grooves, plain tang, case-hardened back-action lock, figured half-stock (repaired above the lock), brass mounts comprising small oval side-nail plate, curved butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, set trigger, brass fore-end cap, wooden ramrod, and much original finish
91 cm. barrel

Footnotes

According to Norm Flayderman the term 'plain rifle' was actual terminology used by various makers and merchants to describe their (Kentucky) rifles that were simple and unembellished (quite often without patch boxes) and usually of the late flintlock and percussion eras

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