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Lot 272

An Irish 10-Bore Flintlock Service Carbine
By Rigby & Son Of Dublin, Circa 1820-26

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

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An Irish 10-Bore Flintlock Service Carbine
By Rigby & Son Of Dublin, Circa 1820-26

With rebrowned sighted barrel with bayonet-bar on the right side at the muzzle, border engraved tang, signed border engraved flat bevelled lock with roller, engraved ring-neck cock, figured full stock (some bruising), brass mounts of regulation type including butt-plate engraved 'Newcastle Bar. y No. 3' on the heel-tang, and stirrup ramrod (steel parts with some rust patination and pitting)
50.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Probably part of a large order of carbines and pistols thought to have been issued to government servants, such as police and customs officers. See D.H.L. Back, Great Irish Gunmakers Messrs Rigby 1760-1869, 1992, p. 29

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