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A Portuguese Contract .577 Snider Three-Band Military Rifle MusketBy B.S.A. & Co., No. R133, Dated 1875
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £540 inc. premium
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By B.S.A. & Co., No. R133, Dated 1875
By B.S.A. & Co., No. R133, Dated 1875
With russet sighted barrel rifled with three grooves and retained by three Baddeley patent barrel bands (one loose), folding adjustable back-sight calibrated to 950 yards, breech stamped 'Snider Patent', pivoting breech-block (spring for catch missing), case-hardened dated flat lock with 'BSA & M Co.' and 'GP' crowned on the tail, figured three-quarter stock (some bruising and worming), regulation brass mounts, sling loops with leather sling, original steel ramrod, and traces of original finish, Birmingham proof marks
93 cm. barrel
93 cm. barrel
Footnotes
One of 10,000 ordered by the Portuguese Government in October 1874. See Ian D. Skennerton, A Treatise on the Snider, 1977, p. 90








