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Lot 424

A Fine .577 Percussion 1858 Pattern Naval Short Rifle
Stamped Birmingham Small Arms Trade, Circa 1870

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine .577 Percussion 1858 Pattern Naval Short Rifle
Stamped Birmingham Small Arms Trade, Circa 1870

With blued sighted barrel with bayonet lug on the right side towards the muzzle, rifled with five grooves and retained by two blued barrel bands, blued calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, blued tang, border engraved case-hardened lock stamped 'Birmingham Small Arms Trade' (Neue Støckel 7113) and with a crown on the tail, engraved case-hardened hammer, figured three-quarter stock, regulation brass mounts, sling loops, original steel ramrod, and in fine conidition retaining nearly all its original finish, Birmingham proof marks
84 cm. barrel

Footnotes

For more information regarding the maker see De Witt Bailey and Douglas A. Nie, English Gunmakers..., 1978, p. 30

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