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A Rare .577 Leetch Patent Breech-Loading Percussion Volunteer Rifle MusketNo. 167, Circa 1855
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
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A Rare .577 Leetch Patent Breech-Loading Percussion Volunteer Rifle Musket
No. 167, Circa 1855
No. 167, Circa 1855
With rebrowned sighted barrel (back-sight removed) rifled with three grooves and retained by three barrel bands, the rear one now carrying a folding leaf back-sight, breech with chamber pivoting down for loading and with characteristic chequered lever acting against a sprung hinge, plain tang, back-action lock, hammer with bar locking the chamber, figured three-quarter stock with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn tip, russet steel mounts including trigger-guard with scrolled serial numbered tang, sling mount, and no provision for a ramrod (steel parts with some very light pitting), London proof marks
90.2 cm. barrel
90.2 cm. barrel
Footnotes
James Leetch supplied Ordnance with breech-loading rifles between 1853 and 1856. He was granted British Patent No. 2235 (1858), No. 990 (1861), No. 2907 (1864) and No. 2279 (1866), all for breech-loaders. For more information see C.H. Roads, The British Soldier's Firearm, 1850-1864..., 1964, pp. 277-279, pls. 299, 304 and 305








