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An 18-Bore Percussion Sporting RifleSigned W. Landell, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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Signed W. Landell, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
Signed W. Landell, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
With browned octagonal leaf-sighted barrel (some patination along the top flats) rifled with eight grooves and signed along the top flat at the breech, case-hardened foliate scroll engraved breech with two platinum lines and platinum plug, border engraved tang decorated with foliate scrollwork, flat detented lock, hammer and mounts all en suite, the first retaining some case-hardening, the last comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, figured half-stock with chequered grip, vacant white-metal escutcheon and barrel bolt escutcheons, adjustable set trigger, dark horn fore-end cap, and original brass-mounted ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
79.6 cm. barrel
79.6 cm. barrel
Footnotes
William Landell is recorded at various addresses in Glasgow between 1846 and 1903








