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Lot 134

A .451 Percussion Breech-Loading Westley Richards Patent 'Monkey-Tail' Carbine
By Westley Richards & Co., NO. 119, Dated 1860

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A .451 Percussion Breech-Loading Westley Richards Patent 'Monkey-Tail' Carbine
By Westley Richards & Co., NO. 119, Dated 1860

With sighted barrel (bore dirty) retained by a barrel band towards the muzzle and engraved 'Whitworth Patent' in front of the folding calibrated back-sight, breech-lever engraved 'Westley Richards Patent', signed dated lock, figured full stock (old scratching and bruising), regulation steel mounts, sling mounts (steel parts rust patinated, head of hammer retaining screw and ramrod missing), Birmingham proof marks
76.2 cm. barrel

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