Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 200

A Liège Breech-Loading Needle-Fire Gallery Rifle Of Small Bore
Stamped Loron. & G. For Pierre Antoine Loron, No. 140, Mid-19th Century

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £750 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A Liège Breech-Loading Needle-Fire Gallery Rifle Of Small Bore
Stamped Loron. & G. For Pierre Antoine Loron, No. 140, Mid-19th Century

With blued octagonal open-sighted barrel (some areas of rust patination) stamped with maker's name in front of the back-sight and with bright smooth bore, blued hinged breech-block with lever-catch on the left, border engraved action and mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork, the former stamped with maker's name beneath, the latter comprising butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, figured butt with chequered grip, and some original finish, Liège proof
57.7 cm. barrel

Footnotes

This appears to incorporate Loron's patent of 18 August 1854

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later

FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.