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Lot 434

A .577 Percussion Lancaster's Patent Volunteer Short Rifle
By Tho.s Fletcher, Gloucester, Mid-19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A .577 Percussion Lancaster's Patent Volunteer Short Rifle
By Tho.s Fletcher, Gloucester, Mid-19th Century

With browned sighted oval bore barrel with bayonet lug on the right towards the muzzle, engraved 'Lancaster's Patent' at the breech, and retained by two blued barrel bands, blued tang engraved with foliate scrollwork extending over the breech flat, signed border engraved flat lock decorated with scrolling foliage, hammer en suite, chained nipple-protector, figured three-quarter stock (minor bruising) with chequered grip and fore-end, regulation steel mounts including trigger-guard decorated en suite with the lock, sling mounts, and original steel ramrod, Ordnance and Birmingham proof marks
80.2 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Thomas Fletcher is recorded in Gloucester between 1841 and 1859

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