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Lot 246

An Italian Vetterli-Vitali 10.4MM 1870/87 Model Bolt-Action Centre-Fire Military Rifle
No. PM7493, Dated 1892

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Italian Vetterli-Vitali 10.4MM 1870/87 Model Bolt-Action Centre-Fire Military Rifle
No. PM7493, Dated 1892

With blued sighted barrel with bayonet-lug on one side towards the muzzle and retained by two spring-held blued barrel bands, blued sprung back-sight operating against a calibrated ramp, serial numbered and dated octagonal breech stamped 'Terni', bolt-action, blued magazine, figured full stock painted '10/111' and stamped with crowned shield within an oval dated 1893 and inscribed 'Artiga. Faba. D'Armi Terni' above 'Riparazione' and the serial number on one side of the butt, blued regulation steel mounts including spur trigger-guard, sling loops, original ramrod, and much original finish
85.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Museum of Artillery, Rotunda, Woolwich

Literature:
J.P. Kaestlin, Catalogue of the Museum of Artillery at the Rotunda, Woolwich, Part II, Personal Arms, H.M.S.O., London, 1963, p. 35, no. 111

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