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Lot 323

A Rare 27-Bore (.577) Percussion Princes' Patent Breech-Loading Rifled Carbine
Retailed By Manton & Co., London & Calcutta, No. 68, Mid-19th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 27-Bore (.577) Percussion Princes' Patent Breech-Loading Rifled Carbine
Retailed By Manton & Co., London & Calcutta, No. 68, Mid-19th Century

With two-stage sighted barrel retaining some of its original browning and sliding forward for loading, rifled with five wide grooves and engraved 'X.40' in an oval behind the folding leaf back-sights, case-hardened breech engraved 'Princes' Patent' along the top, signed border engraved back-action lock and hammer retaining traces of case-hardening, figured half-stock (two minor old splits) with chequered grip and stamped '42' on one side of the butt, plain brass mounts comprising butt-plate, fore-end cap and trigger-guard, the last with sliding catch for the serial numbered detachable bolt, the latter secured by a blued wing-headed screw, vacant white-metal escutcheon, and much original finish, London proof marks
55 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Frederick Prince was granted British Patent No. 386 on 21 February 1855 for 'Breech actions, sliding-barrel'.

Manton & Co. were established in Calcutta, India by Frederick Manton in around 1825. Between 1828 and 1833 the firm was managed by John Augustus Manton, and by Edward Manton between 1834 and 1846, the year the firm was acquired by W.R. Wallis

See lot 318

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