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A Rare Cased .650 (16-Bore) Tubelock Sporting Rifle And 8-Bore Wildfowling Gun By Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond St., London, No. 703 and 704, Circa 1830
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,562.50 inc. premium
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A Rare Cased .650 (16-Bore) Tubelock Sporting Rifle And 8-Bore Wildfowling Gun
By Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond St., London, No. 703 and 704, Circa 1830
By Charles Lancaster, 151 New Bond St., London, No. 703 and 704, Circa 1830
With heavy rebrowned twist octagonal barrel signed along the top flat, leaf-sighted from 150 to 250 yards and rifled with nine spiral grooves, case-hardened recessed patent breech with rectangular platinum-lined maker's stamp, platinum line and raised platinum-lined touch-hole, the rebrowned twist sighted wildfowling barrel in three-stages, octagonal breech becoming polygonal and signed along the top flat, and patent breech en suite with the rifle barrel, border engraved tang decorated with a stag's head and scrolling foliage, signed border engraved flat detented lock decorated with scrolling foliage, hammer and tube-retainer en suite, the former with engraved safety-catch, the latter acting on an external spring with roller, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with chequered grip and dark horn fore-end cap, butt with cheek-piece, border engraved steel mounts (some rust patination) comprising butt-plate (pitting) decorated with a running stag in a landscape and foliage on the heel tang, trigger-guard with a pointer in a landscape on the bow and with pheasants in a landscape on the tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon and barrel-bolt escutcheons, adjustable set trigger, and associated brass-mounted ramrods: in original lined and fitted brass-mounted mahogany case with some accessories including Sykes patent brass-mounted powder-flask retaining much of its original lacquered finish, steel bullet and G. & J.W. Hawksley pewter oil bottle, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (minor damage), the exterior of the lid (minor chips and old bruising) with flush-fitting brass carrying handle centred on a circular vacant brass escutcheon, London proof marks and Lancaster's barrelsmith's mark
74.2 cm. and 86.8 cm. barrels
74.2 cm. and 86.8 cm. barrels
Footnotes
Charles Lancaster, barrel maker to Joseph Manton, is recorded at 151 New Bond Street between 1829 and the year of his death in 1847







