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Lot 135

A Very Rare .551 Percussion Wilson's Patent Breech-Loading Volunteer Short Rifle
By T. Wilson, Horncastle, No. A199, Dated 1861

24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare .551 Percussion Wilson's Patent Breech-Loading Volunteer Short Rifle
By T. Wilson, Horncastle, No. A199, Dated 1861

With sighted barrel retaining some blueing (some scattered pitting), signed and serial numbered at the breech, rifled with five bright spiral grooves and retained by two barrel bands, the forward one with bayonet lug on the right, calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, sliding breech-block engraved 'T. Wilson's Patent' and with hinged chequered grip acting against a spring at the rear and locked into position by a transversally sliding bolt or cottar with sprung catch and also forming a safety-stop, dated border engraved flat lock with crown on the tail, figured three-quarter stock (some bruising, split above the tail of the lock) with chequered grip and fore-stock, steel mounts including chequered spur secured by two screws, sling loops with leather sling, and original steel ramrod, Birmingham proof marks
84.3 cm. barrel

Footnotes

Edwin Wilson is recorded at Horncastle, Lincolnshire between 1861 and 1868. He was granted British Patent No. 2488 of 12 October 1860 of which this is an example. See S.B. Haw, 'Thomas Wilson's BL Rifle (Patented)', Gun Review (November 1983), pp. 862-863

Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 25 November 2015, lot 254

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