Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2017 : Sale A0617 Lot 526
H. JAQUET, GENEVA A 10.4mm PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'M1851', no visible serial number, WITH BAYONET,

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H. JAQUET, GENEVA
A 10.4mm PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'M1851', no visible serial number, WITH BAYONET,
Swiss, circa 1852, with round 33in. rifled barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight with wing-nut lock, plain elongated top-tang, plain hump-back lock signed 'H. JAQUET A GENEVE', plain walnut full-stock with 'roman-nose' comb, heavy iron hooked butt-plate, re-inforced trigger-guard tang, double-set triggers, finger-spur to the trigger-guard bow, iron roll-tipped nose-cap, iron under-barrel ram-rod with captive sliding ball-guides, socket to the right hand side of muzzle and iron sling swivels, together with its seldom encountered iron, concave triangular cross-section bayonet (no scabbard).

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Estimate £500-700