Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2017 : Sale A0617 Lot 519
MERRILL, USA A .54 CAPPING BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT CARBINE, MODEL 'MERRILL'S PAT. FIRST ISSUE', serial no. 1291,

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MERRILL, USA
A .54 CAPPING BREECH-LOADING PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT CARBINE, MODEL 'MERRILL'S PAT. FIRST ISSUE', serial no. 1291,
circa 1862, with tapering round 22in. barrel, applied fore-sight blade, double folding leaf rear-sight, rearward hinged lift-up breech signed 'JAS H MERRILL, BALTO, PAT. JULY 1858', plain bevel-edged lock signed 'J.H. MERRILL BALTO. PAT. JULY 1858 APL. 9 MAY 21-28-61', walnut half-stock with brass patch-box inlet to the right hand side of butt, crescent heel-plate, brass trigger-guard bow and tang, iron saddle-bar and ring and splinter fore-end with possible replacement barrel-band

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Estimate £700-900