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A 25-Bore Percussion 1861 Pattern Rifled Service PistolDated 1867
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,000 inc. premium
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A 25-Bore Percussion 1861 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1867
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
20.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
See C.H. Roads, The British Soldier's Firearm, 1850-1864, 1964, p. 115, pl. 231




