Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2020 : Sale A0320 Lot 719
VON ERLACH, SWITZERLAND A 10.4mm (RIMFIRE) SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL M1817-42-67 MILBANK-AMSLER, serial no. 1537 (388), WITH BAYONET,

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* VON ERLACH, SWITZERLAND

A 10.4mm (RIMFIRE) SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'M1817-42-67 MILBANK-AMSLER', serial no. 1537 (388), WITH BAYONET,
circa 1868, with blued 36in. barrel marked near breech 'VAUD 388', block and blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight, flip-up breech with off-set firing pin, the top signed 'NEUHAUSEN', Swiss proofs, blued hump-back lock signed ''V.ERLACH U CIE THUN', plain hammer, walnut full-stock with iron furniture including spurred trigger-guard, two barrel bands and nose-cap, drum-headed under-barrel clearing rod and complete with a period socket bayonet with scabbard (slight shrinkage).

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Estimate £350-500

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament