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A Swiss 60-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting RifleBy Weber-Ruesch In Zurich, No. 1086, Mid-19th Century
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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A Swiss 60-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Rifle
By Weber-Ruesch In Zurich, No. 1086, Mid-19th Century
By Weber-Ruesch In Zurich, No. 1086, Mid-19th Century
With browned sighted barrels signed in gold along the top flat, with gold lines at the muzzles and breeches and each rifled with eight grooves, adjustable back-sight, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breeches, long foliate engraved case-hardened tang decorated with a chamois in a mountainous landscape above a bearded grotesque mask, case-hardened back-action locks of shaped outline each decorated with foliage involving a profile grotesque-head and a monster-head either side of a prone hind in a landscape, hammer with foliage en suite, pivoting safety-bolsters, and the inside of each lock retaining nearly all its blued and burnished finish, figured half-stock with chequered grip, butt with cheek-piece and hinged patch-box cover of shaped outline, the latter engraved en suite with the locks and involving a stag and hind in a landscape, steel mounts also en suite and comprising curved butt-plate, scroll trigger-guard with finger extension and engraved with a hunting trophy on the bow, horn spur with scroll behind, steel fore-end cap with finial en suite with the mounts, adjustable set triggers, sling loops, original ramrod with white-metal tip, and much original finish
78.2 cm. barrels
78.2 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Casimir Weber-Ruesch is recorded in Zurich between 1824 and the year of his death in 1914




