Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2018 : Sale A0618 Lot 520
SHARPS, USA A SCARCE .577 PERCUSSION BREECH-LOADING CARBINE, MODEL 1855 BRITISH CARBINE, serial no. 22142,

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SHARPS, USA
A SCARCE .577 PERCUSSION BREECH-LOADING CARBINE, MODEL '1855 BRITISH CARBINE', serial no. 22142,
circa 1856, with 19in. tapering round British Ordnance marked barrel, block and blade fore-sight, rear-sight with one standing and four folding leaves, receiver with slanted breech-block, Maynard's tape-primer mechanism on the right hand side of action, the trapdoor marked 'EDWARD MAYNARD PATENTEE 1845', walnut butt-stock, brass patch-box and heel-plate, the heel-plate spur marked '6D' over '541' (Inniskilling Dragoons), saddle-ring mounted to left hand side, walnut splinter fore-end and iron barrel-band, traces of finish

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Estimate £2,000-2,500