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A GOOD .450 AUGUSTE FRANCOTTE DELUXE REVOLVER RETAILED BY CARLOS RASETTI Y CIE, BUENOS AIRES, serial no. 6061,
circa 1880, with nickel-plated (possibly silver) round 4 3/4in. barrel, moulded sighting rib of Smith & Wesson style signed 'CARLOS RASETTI Y CIE, 526 RIVADAVIA, BUENOS AIRES' and further marked 'A. FRANCOTTE A LIEGE', bright blued crescent fore-sight, scroll engraving to sides of top-strap, twin Pryse-type locking-bars for the break-open frame, the bars decorated with engine-turning and bright-blued cross-pin, plain six-shot automatic ejecting quick-release cylinder engraved with borders and a scrolled panel over each chamber, border and scroll engraved frame, chequered ebony grips, a button at heel allowing the quick access to the mechanism, the whole retaining virtually all its original finish
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Estimate £1,500-2,000
S5 - Sold as a Section 5 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act, Sections 7.3 and 7.1 Eligible.
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Goods will not be released until all outstanding charges have been met. Collection will be by arrangement.