Product Details
* A .577 VOLUNTEER PERCUSSION SHORT SERVICE RIFLE OF PATTERN 1856 TYPE,
dated '1859', with 33in. barrel sighted to 1,100 yards and rifled with three grooves, flat border engraved lock marked with a crown and the date on the tail, walnut three quarter stock (old repaired crack between tail of lock and escutcheon), iron mounts, chained nipple-protector (nipple incomplete), silver escutcheon engraved with the initials 'T.V.', iron ramrod, and brass-mounted cork muzzle-plug (iron parts blackened with some surface corrosion), Birmingham proof marks.
Estimate £300-500
THE ABOVE LOT IS PURCHASED AS AN EXEMPT ITEM UNDER SECTION 58 (2) OF THE 1968 FIREARMS ACT. TO BE HELD AS A CURIOSITY OR ORNAMENT.
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