Product Details
NATIONAL ARMS & AMMUNITION CO., AUSTRALIA
A SCARCE .577-450 (M/H) SINGLE-SHOT BREECH-LOADING SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL 'HENRY', serial no. 418,
dated for 1877, with 31 1/4in. sighted barrel, block and blade fore-sight, elevating rear-sight, plain receiver stamped 'HENRY'S PATENT' on the left hand side and 'N.A.A.Co LTD 1877' on the right, plain back-action left-handed lock, straight-hand plain walnut butt-stock stamped on the right hand side 'N.S.W. AC87' together with 'O D' either side of a broad arrow mark, the same mark inverted and reversed beneath and bisected with the letter 'S', plain three-quarter fore-end, iron furniture, two barrel-bands and original clearing rod, exposed iron surfaces pitted
Other Notes: It is believed less than 1600 of these military-style Alexander Henry rifles were built for the New South Wales government in 1877
Estimate £300-500