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Lot 425

A Fine .577 Percussion Commercial 1853 Pattern Second Model Rifle Musket
By Wilkinson, London, Mid-19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine .577 Percussion Commercial 1853 Pattern Second Model Rifle Musket
By Wilkinson, London, Mid-19th Century

With blued sighted barrel rifled with three grooves and retained by three blued spring-held barrel bands, the breech stamped with initials and 'Henry Clive' beneath, blued calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, blued tang, signed case-hardened border engraved flat lock, engraved case-hardened hammer, figured full stock (minor bruising and small chip on one side of the barrel tang), regulation brass mounts, sling loops, original ramrod, and retaining most of its original finish
99.1 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Henry 2 Wilkinson (1794-1861) designed an Irish police carbine for the Master General of Ordnance in 1835. He made numerous inventions during his lifetime including a sword-blade testing machine. In 1845 the famous Colonel Peter Hawker described him as '...unquestionably the cleverest and most scientific master in the trade'

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