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Lot 442

A 25-Bore Percussion 1861 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1867

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A 25-Bore Percussion 1861 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1867

With blued sighted barrel rifled with five grooves and retaining a brass-mounted barrel-plug, blued tang with back-sight, dated border engraved case-hardened flat lock with 'Enfield' over broad arrow War Department mark and 'V.R' crowned on the tail, figured full stock (minor bruising) with circular Enfield arsenal mark and supplier's name 'J. Leadbetter' opposite the lock, regulation brass mounts including butt-cap with lanyard ring, stirrup ramrod, and much of its original finish, Ordnance proof mark
20.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

See C.H. Roads, The British Soldier's Firearm, 1850-1864, 1964, p. 115, pl. 231

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