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Lot 176

A Fine .577 Percussion Volunteer Match Prize Rifle
No. 3651, Dated 1863

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine .577 Percussion Volunteer Match Prize Rifle
No. 3651, Dated 1863

With blued sighted barrel rifled with five bright grooves, serial numbered bayonet lug on the right towards the muzzle and retained by two blued barrel bands, brass-mounted barrel plug and brass fore-sight protector, calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, blued tang, dated border engraved case-hardened flat lock, case-hardened hammer, highly figured three-quarter stock with chequered grip, the butt with oval silver plaque on one side engraved with the presentation inscription, steel mounts of regulation type, sling loops, original steel ramrod, and much of its original finish, Birmingham proof marks
84 cm. barrel

Footnotes

The presentation inscription reads: 'Lutterworth Prize Contest. First Prize, September 8th 1863. Presented To Colour Sergeant Joseph Lee. By Chas. Burdett, Esqr.'

Charles Burdett was a wine merchant at Lutterworth, Leicestershire

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