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A Rare Irish 52-Bore (.451) Percussion Match RifleBy John Rigby & Co., Dublin & London, No. 12541 For 1865
24 November 2010, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,760 inc. premium
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By John Rigby & Co., Dublin & London, No. 12541 For 1865
By John Rigby & Co., Dublin & London, No. 12541 For 1865
With blued barrel (some light surface pitting and bruising) rifled with eight grooves (bore with some rust and pitting), breech with sighting flat and signed in gothic script beyond, windage adjustable fore-sight (incomplete), border engraved case-hardened tang (long range peep-sight missing), border engraved case-hardened detented flat lock (hammer missing) signed in gothic script and with Rigby mirror monogram on the tail, blued safety-catch, figured half-stock with chequered pistol-grip and fore-end, both with dark horn cap, border engraved blued iron mounts comprising chequered butt-plate and serial numbered trigger-guard, no provision for a ramrod, and some original finish
82.5 cm. barrel
82.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Literature:
D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p. 173. Recorded as sold to a C. Allport
Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms and Armour, 30 November 2006, lot 268








