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* WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO., BIRMINGHAM
A .450 (WHITWORTH) PERCUSSION BREECH-LOADING CARBINE, MODEL 'MONKEYTAIL', serial no. 16343,
private purchase and dated for 1876, with 25in. barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, small ladder rear-sight, later applied provision for mounting a telescopic sight (only one block remaining), the breech end with commercial proofs and marked 'WHITWORTH PATENT', flip-up breech-block signed 'MANUFACTURED BY WESTLEY RICHARDS' together with the triangular trademark, brushed bright dated bar-action lock signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO', chequered walnut full-stock (old repair alongside top-tang), ribbed iron heel-plate with central trapdoor, blued iron trigger-guard bow and tang, single barrel-band and iron nose-cap, complete with its iron under-barrel clearing rod, metalwork refinished
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Estimate £400-600