Main Sale - September 2012 : Sale A1066 Lot 503
PRITCHETT & SON, LONDON A SCARCE .451 PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT MATCH RIFLE, no visible serial number,

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PRITCHETT & SON, LONDON
A SCARCE .451 PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT MATCH RIFLE, no visible serial number,
circa 1865, heavy round 31in. re-browned barrel with flat sighting rib signed near breech 'PRITCHETT & SON, 7 POULTRY LONDON' (rubbed with loss to detail), dove-tail provision for fore-sight (missing), elevating ladder rear-sight with blanked-off dove-tail behind, borderline engraved breech, plain top-tang, plain bar-action lock, sliding safe behind the hammer, chequered walnut half-stock (old splits and repairs), micrometer adjustable target sight mounted on the wrist, iron furniture including trigger-guard with scrolled pistol-grip tang, horn fore-end tip iron under-barrel rib and re-tipped horn ramrod
Estimate £800-1,200