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Lot 431*
A 14-Bore Percussion Brunswick Second Model Service RifleDated 1846
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,500 inc. premium
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Dated 1846
Dated 1846
With browned sighted barrel with bayonet mount on the right side towards the muzzle and rifled for a belted ball, back-sight with folding leaf, plain tang, dated border engraved flat lock with 'VR' crowned over 'Tower', figured full stock (some old bruising) stamped with supplier's name 'G. Rolton' on the side-flat, the butt with Board of Ordnance ownership mark in front of the patch-box, and with small inspector's marks and 'I. Cook' along the bottom, regulation brass mounts including hinged rectangular patch-box cover opening to reveal a brass jag, spur trigger-guard (sling loop missing), brass ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, sling loop, and original steel ramrod, complete with its brass-hilted sword bayonet, with leaf-shaped blade with central fuller on each side and stamped 'Enfield 1846' on one side at the forte beneath 'VR' crowned, and ribbed grip numbered '16' on the pommel and incorporating a spring button-catch, in its brass-mounted black leather scabbard with black leather frog, Ordnance view and proof marks (2)
76.5 cm. barrel
76.5 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Cf. another example dated 1847 and sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 20 April 2011, lot 239




