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A Fine Scottish Cased .451 Percussion Volunteer Match Prize RifleBy Charles Ingram, 100 Union St., Glasgow, Dated 1861
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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A Fine Scottish Cased .451 Percussion Volunteer Match Prize Rifle
By Charles Ingram, 100 Union St., Glasgow, Dated 1861
By Charles Ingram, 100 Union St., Glasgow, Dated 1861
With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel engraved with foliate scrollwork at the muzzle and breech, the latter signed in full, and rifled with seven grooves, target sights, the folding calibrated back-sight with wing-headed screws for adjusting windage and elevation, border engraved case-hardened breech (some rust patination) decorated with scrolling foliage, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang and signed border engraved flat lock, dolphin hammer en suite and with blued safety-catch in front, figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end (the former with two small filled holes for a long range sight), the latter with horn tip, ovoidal silver plaque opposite the lock engraved with dated presentation inscription, border engraved case-hardened steel mounts comprising hinged circular patch-box cover decorated with three hinds in a landscape, trigger-guard with a tiger in a landscape on the bow and with chequered spur, silver escutcheon engraved with owner's initials, sling mounts, original brass-mounted ramrod, and retaining nearly all its original finish: in original relined and refitted leather-mounted black canvas case, the exterior of the lid painted in white with owner's initials, London proof marks
79.5 cm. barrel
79.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
The presentation inscription reads: '1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers 1st Company Prize Presented by Non Commisssioned Officers & Privates Gained by James Anderson 10th Sept., 1861.'




