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Lot 175

A .577 Percussion Commercial 1856 Pattern Short Rifle
By R.T. Pritchett, London, Mid-19th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A .577 Percussion Commercial 1856 Pattern Short Rifle
By R.T. Pritchett, London, Mid-19th Century

With sighted barrel rifled with three grooves, engraved 'London' at the breech and retained by two screw-held barrel bands, bayonet-lug on the right towards the muzzle, calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, plain tang, signed border engraved flat lock, figured stock (old bruising), regulation steel mounts including butt-plate engraved 'C' over 'V.R' and '50', sling mounts with later leather sling, and original steel ramrod (steel parts with some light pitting), indistinct London proof marks
83.8 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Robert Taylor Pritchett is recorded at 86 St. James's Street between 1856 and 1862. He was elected Master of the Gunmakers' Company in 1854 and, together with W.E. Metford, was the inventor of the Pritchett rifle bullet in 1853. Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1861, he retired in 1865 and took up art. In 1868 he illustrated Scott's British Army, and became Private Painter in Watercolours to Queen Victoria

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