Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2013 : Sale A190913 Lot 907
ST. ETIENNE AN 11mm NEEDLE-FIRE BOLT-ACTION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL CHASSEPOT M1866, serial no. 83047,
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ST. ETIENNE
AN 11mm NEEDLE-FIRE BOLT-ACTION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL 'CHASSEPOT M1866', serial no. 83047,
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), iron full-length clearing rod stored under barrel, the whole with iron parts darkly stained
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Estimate £300-500