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Lot 461

An Unusual Cased 60-Bore Breech-Loading Percussion Rifle
By J.W. Edge, Manchester, No. 31, Mid-19th Century

26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Cased 60-Bore Breech-Loading Percussion Rifle
By J.W. Edge, Manchester, No. 31, Mid-19th Century

With rebrowned twist sighted polygroove rifled barrel, the rear section threaded and rotating within the breech section allowing the barrel to move forward for removal and releasing the sprung upward pivoting breech-chamber for loading, the breech octagonal becoming polygonal, engraved 'Manchester' in gothic script along the top flat, and with a threaded cover beneath secured by a sliding bolt, case-hardened breech-chamber engraved with a foliate scroll, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang and signed border engraved back-action lock (hammer replaced), figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end (repaired), border engraved white-metal mounts decorated with scrolling foliage and comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard, the latter with pineapple finial, vacant white-metal escutcheon, and foliate scroll engraved steel fore-end cap: in original lined and fitted mahogany case (lock mechanism missing) with some accessories including brass-mounted powder-flask of circular section (top mount incomplete), and barrel-wrench serial numbered to the rifle and with wing-headed securing screw, the exterior of the lid (lining missing) with circular brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
78 cm. barrel

Footnotes

John William Edge is recorded in Manchester between 1827 and 1864

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