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 431*

A 14-Bore Percussion Brunswick Second Model Service Rifle
Dated 1846

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Sporting Guns specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A 14-Bore Percussion Brunswick Second Model Service Rifle
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

Footnotes

Cf. another example dated 1847 and sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 20 April 2011, lot 239

Additional information

Bid now on these items

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

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