Product Details
A SCARCE .43 WERNDL BREECH-LOADING RIFLE SIGNED 'TOWER', MODEL 'CORNISH'S PATENT', no visible serial number,
dated for 1871, possibly produced for foreign trials and based on a Pattern '56 Enfield, with 34in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, Birmingham commercial proofs, enlarged breech with flip-up and over hinged breech-block with offset firing-pin to rear, static feed ramp, military type Tower lock, walnut three-quarter stock with iron furniture including two barrel-bands, brass heel-plate and bayonet lug mounted to right hand side of muzzle
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament