Fine Modern & Antique Guns - November 2025 : Sale A1125 Lot 727
A 10.4mm WAFFENFABRIK BERN M78 VETTERLI SERVICE RIFLE, serial no. 158604,

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A 10.4mm WAFFENFABRIK BERN M78 VETTERLI SERVICE RIFLE, serial no. 158604,
circa 1882, with well reblued 33in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight, slab-sided receiver marked with the manufacturing arsenal and the date, loading aperture to right side, tubular bolt-housing with central fire bolt and turned down bolt-handle, walnut butt-stock, full-length walnut fore-end concealing the tubular magazine, iron furniture and under-barrel clearing rod




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Estimate £300-500

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