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A Very Fine Cased .450 (52-Bore) Percussion Whitworth Patent Sporting And Target RifleBy The Whitworth Patent Rifle Company, No. 271, Circa 1860
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,562.50 inc. premium
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A Very Fine Cased .450 (52-Bore) Percussion Whitworth Patent Sporting And Target Rifle
By The Whitworth Patent Rifle Company, No. 271, Circa 1860
By The Whitworth Patent Rifle Company, No. 271, Circa 1860
With blued barrel rifled with five bright spiral grooves and engraved 'Whitworth . Patent' along the top in front of the back-sights, the latter comprising two folding leaf-sights for 100 and 200 yards respectively and each with central gold line, and folding adjustable long range sight calibrated from 300 to 1000 yards and also with central gold line, blued fore-sight, breech flat engraved with foliage at the terminal, border engraved case-hardened breech decorated with a prone stag on the flat and with platinum plug, border engraved case-hardened tang decorated with scrolling foliage, case-hardened border engraved flat detented lock engraved 'Whitworth Patent' and decorated with foliate scrollwork, hammer en suite and inhabited by an eagle and serpent, a blued safety-catch in front, highly figured half-stock (minor scratches on the side-flat) with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, border engraved case-hardened steel mounts decorated with scrolling foliage and comprising butt-plate with pineapple-shaped finial, circular hinged patch-box cover engraved with a stag pursued by a hound in a landscape within a border of scrollwork, vacant silver escutcheon, engraved sling button, and retaining virtually all its original finish: in original lined and fitted mahogany case (one compartment with minor damage) retaining the compartment covers each with bone knob, and with accessories including G. & J.W. Hawksley powder-flask with bag-shaped body covered in black pigskin, Whitworth bullet mould and hand tools, T-shaped combination tool with spare nipples, brass-mounted ramrod and japanned ammunition box, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label, the exterior (minor old splits) with vacant circular brass escutcheon, Birmingham proof marks
74.5 cm. barrel
74.5 cm. barrel







