Product Details
A SCARCE .577 PERCUSSION SERVICE-RIFLE SIGNED TOWER, MODEL 'PATTERN 1856 SHORT-RIFLE', serial no. 926,
dated for 1858, with 33in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, plain military-style lock with borderline engraving, signed and dated and with a V.R. crown stamp to the tail, sold out of service stamps, walnut three-quarter stock, iron furniture and provision for ramrod (missing)
Other Notes: Most Pattern 1856 Short Rifles are volunteer models, produced by various jobbing gunmakers and commercially proved. This is a military made and issued piece, which when one bears in mind the introduction of the five-grooved rifled Pattern 1860 and 61 rifles coupled with the fact that the majority of '56's were converted into Snider two-band rifles, makes the genuine military Pattern 1856 a hard to find rifle
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Estimate £600-800