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A Fine 32-Bore Jacob's Patent D.B. Percussion Rifle image 1
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Lot 326*

A Fine 32-Bore Jacob's Patent D.B. Percussion Rifle
Unsigned But By Charles Phillips Swinburn & Son, Circa 1860

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine 32-Bore Jacob's Patent D.B. Percussion Rifle
Unsigned But By Charles Phillips Swinburn & Son, Circa 1860

With blued barrels each cut with four deep grooves, leaf-sighted to 300 yards, and with blued folding adjustable long-range sight to 2000 yards, foliate engraved case-hardened breeches, long slender tang, back-action locks and hammers, the last stamped 'Patent' on the inside, figured half-stock (butt with minor bruising, toe of butt with small chip) with chequered grip and fore-end, the right hand lock cavity stamped with stockmaker's name 'J. Mathews', foliate engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard, the latter with chequered spur, foliate engraved hinged circular patch-box cover decorated with a lion in a landscape, blued barrel band stamped 'Patent' on one side, sling loops, original steel ramrod, and much original finish, Birmingham proof marks
59.5 cm. barrels

Footnotes

For information on Major John Jacob, Commander of the Scinde Irregular Horse and inventor of the Jacob's rifle, see Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms 1650-1850, 1961, pp. 202-204, pl. 67 (i); and C.H. Roads, The British Soldier's Firearm 1850-1864, 1964, p. 43, 45-47

Charles Phillips Swinburn was granted British Patent no. 2269 of 12 October 1858 for a barrel band used on double-barrelled Jacob rifles

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