Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2017 : Sale A0617 Lot 715
REMINGTON, USA A SCARCE .38-40 (REM-HEP.) SINGLE-SHOT SPORTING-TARGET RIFLE, MODEL 'REMINGTON-HEPBURN', serial no. 4487,

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REMINGTON, USA
A SCARCE .38-40 (REM-HEP.) SINGLE-SHOT SPORTING-TARGET RIFLE, MODEL 'REMINGTON-HEPBURN', serial no. 4487,
circa 1881, with heavy octagonal 28in. slightly tapered blued barrel signed at the breech 'E. REMINGTON & SONS ILION N.Y.' and marked with the calibre (.38) to the bottom flat, dove-tailed 'rocky mountain' fore-sight, buckhorn rear-sight, colour-hardened plain receiver (much finish remaining) marked 'HEPBURNS PAT OCTOBER 7th 1879', central hammer, top-tang mounted with vernier peep-sight, walnut chequered half pistol-grip butt-stock, nickel-plated crescent iron heel-plate, colour-hardened side-lever, chequered walnut splinter fore-end with large white metal oval escutcheon to rear and plated schnabel tip

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Estimate £1,500-2,500