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Lot 166*

A Very Rare 11-Bore Westley Richards Patent Experimental Percussion Patch-Lock Service Musket
By Westley Richards Patentee, Mid-19th Century

11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare 11-Bore Westley Richards Patent Experimental Percussion Patch-Lock Service Musket
By Westley Richards Patentee, Mid-19th Century

With browned twist barrel signed at the breech and with bayonet lug also forming the fore-sight at the muzzle, breech with browned bolster on one side threaded for a disc-shaped primer retainer, plain tang with swept shield on the right side, signed case-hardened flat lock, bevelled hammer, the nose fitted with a percussion nipple, figured full stock (minor bruising) with circular recess for a spare nipple beneath the butt, regulation brass mounts, sling loops, steel ramrod, probably original, and some original finish, Birmingham proof marks
98.5 cm. barrel

Footnotes

This musket appears to incorporates Westley Richards British Patent No. 6071 of 11 February 1831 for 'Improvements in the touch-holes and primers suitable to percussion guns and pistols', &c.'

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