Main Sale - June 2011 : Sale A1054 Lot 707
ST ETIENNE, AN 11mm X 59R (GRAS) BOLT-ACTION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL M1866, serial no. 99618,
Product Details
* ST ETIENNE,
AN 11mm X 59R (GRAS) BOLT-ACTION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL 'M1866', serial no. 99618,
circa 1870, with 32 1/2in. sighted barrel, the octagonal breech section marked 'MANUFACTURE IMPERIALE ST ETIENNE' and 'MLE 1866', right-angled bolt (non-matching number), plain, straight-hand hard-wood three-quarter stock with iron furniture (woodwork lightly bruised and scuffed), steel full-length clearing rod stored under barrel TOGETHER WITH a correct pattern bayonet (non-matching numbers) dated for 1878, the whole with iron parts darkly stained
Estimate £300-500