Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2017 : Sale A0617 Lot 718
A 17mm BREECH-LOADING SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL '1853 TABATIERE', serial no. 9082,
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A 17mm BREECH-LOADING SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE RIFLE, MODEL '1853 TABATIERE', serial no. 9082,
French circa 1854 and being a direct conversion of a Charville rifled musket to breech-loading, with 39in. barrel, blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, swing-open brass breech-block and receiver with guide ramp running into the wrist, plain hump-back lock with side-hammer (sear at fault), walnut three-quarter stock, iron furniture and iron under-barrel ramrod
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Estimate £400-600