Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2017 : Sale A0617 Lot 520
A GOOD CASED .577 PERCUSSION SPORTING MATCH-RIFLE SIGNED 'J. ASTON', serial no. 338,

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A GOOD CASED .577 PERCUSSION SPORTING MATCH-RIFLE SIGNED 'J. ASTON', serial no. 338,
circa 1865, with three-groove rifled 33in. blued round barrel (signed J. Aston' on the underside), block and blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, colour hardened breech-block and long top-tang, colour hardened borderline engraved lock signed 'J. Aston', colour hardened hammer, chequered walnut half-stock with colour hardened furniture including a patch-box and spurred lower tang, military style under-barrel iron ramrod, the whole retaining virtually all its factory colour and finish together with an almost certainly associated oak storage case compartmented and lined in green baize and containing a number of accessories including a fine leather covered Sykes Patent powder flask, a number of loading tools, a cap tin and a muzzle tompion (escutcheon missing from lock)

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Estimate £3,500-5,000