Product Details
A .577 SNIDER / ENFIELD MK III CAVALRY CARBINE, CIRCA 1871, serial no. l1116,
with 19in. steel barrel rifled with five grooves and profusely Ordnance marked at breech, fitted with a block and blade front-sight and carbine pattern ladder rear-sight the ladder sighted to 600 yards (the sight has been resoldered and the top bar a replacement), the breech is the improved Mk III type, the lock stamped with the crown V.R. cypher on the tail and 1871 ENFIELD to the centre and stamped with the number L1116, brass mounted walnut half-stock, the butt impressed with the Enfield 1st class roundel, the butt-plate with trap containing its original two piece cleaning rod.
Provenance: After the supply of Pattern 1861 percussion cavalry carbines for conversion to Snider was exhausted, Snider carbines were made up as new arms with the improved Mk III positive bolt and latch locked action and a steel rather than an iron barrel. 15,000 were produced at Enfield 1869/71 and this was one.
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Estimate £450-650
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament