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A Rare 25-Bore Percussion 1856 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol Dated 1857
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,785 inc. premium
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A Rare 25-Bore Percussion 1856 Pattern Rifled Service Pistol
Dated 1857
Dated 1857
With blackened leaf-sighted barrel rifled with five wide grooves, blackened tang, dated border engraved case-hardened flat lock stamped 'Tower' and with 'V.R.' crowned on the tail, figured full stock with circular Pimlico arsenal mark dated 1866 and numbered '2' on one side of the butt, and with supplier's name 'J. Pain' on the side-flat, regulation brass mounts including butt-cap stamped 'V.L.' and numbered '2' and '4' on the tang, lanyard swivel, and stirrup ramrod, Ordnance view and proof marks
25.4 cm. barrel
25.4 cm. barrel
Footnotes
Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 25 November 2015, lot 258








