Fine Modern & Antique Guns - December 2018 : Sale A1218 Lot 605
A FRANCOTTE, LIEGE AN 18mm BREECH-LOADING SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL M1817-42-67 MILBANK-AMSLER INFANTRY RIFLE, serial no. 3890,

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* A FRANCOTTE, LIEGE

AN 18mm BREECH-LOADING SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'M1817-42-67 MILBANK-AMSLER INFANTRY RIFLE', serial no. 3890,
made for the Swiss, with round 38in. rifled barrel, applied boat-shaped blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight, flip-up Milbank-Amsler patent converted breech, plain top-tang, plain lock of flint form signed 'A. FRANCOTTE, LIEGE', plain walnut full-stock, heavy iron butt-plate, finger-grooved trigger-guard tang, plain trigger, two iron barrel-bands and twin banded iron nose-cap, iron under-barrel ramrod, bayonet lug to the underside of muzzle and iron sling swivels

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Estimate £400-600
(USD 518-777)
(EUR 444-666)


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Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament