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Lot 222
A 26-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle, And An American 80-Bore Percussion Plains RifleThe First By Beckwith, London, No. 2538, The Second By W.A. Spies Of New York, Both Mid-19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£800 - £1,200
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Find your local specialistA 26-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle, And An American 80-Bore Percussion Plains Rifle
The First By Beckwith, London, No. 2538, The Second By W.A. Spies Of New York, Both Mid-19th Century
The First By Beckwith, London, No. 2538, The Second By W.A. Spies Of New York, Both Mid-19th Century
The first with twist octagonal sighted barrel (areas of pitting, sights missing) rifled for a belted ball and signed along the breech, foliate scroll engraved breech, tang, signed border engraved back-action lock with safety-catch, dolphin hammer and brass mounts, the last comprising butt-plate and scroll trigger-guard with pineapple finial, figured half-stock (old bruising) with chequered grip, vacant white-metal escutcheon and fore-end cap, and later brass-tipped ramrod (sling mounts missing, steel parts rust patinated), London proof marks; the second with octagonal leaf-sighted barrel (under-rib loose) rifled with eight grooves, border engraved breech, grooved foliate engraved tang, foliate engraved flat lock signed in gothic script, figured half-stock (split through at the side-nail) flat along the bottom of the butt, the latter with hinged brass patch-box cover in a brass plate with clipped corners, curved brass butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, set trigger, pewter fore-end cap, and ramrod (tip missing), probably original (barrel and lock with pitting) (2)
75 cm. and 88.3 cm. barrels
75 cm. and 88.3 cm. barrels
Footnotes
A.W. Spies is recorded at Fulton Street at Broadway, New York, between 1832 and the year of his death in 1860