Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2020 : Sale A0320 Lot 743
A 10.4mm (VETTERLI) SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE, MODEL MARTINI-TYPE, no visible serial number,

Product Details

* A 10.4mm (VETTERLI) SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE, MODEL 'MARTINI-TYPE', no visible serial number,
probably Swiss market circa 1885, with round 33in. barrel, octagonal breech, block and dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight, slab-sided receiver with tilting feed-ramp, walnut butt-stock with Swiss style iron heel-plate, complex finger-spurred trigger-guard forming the under-lever, double set triggers and walnut three-quarter length fore-end with twin barrel-keys, stirrup swivels and iron under-barrel clearing rod

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Estimate £300-500

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