Product Details
* JAS. KERR TRADING AS THE LONDON ARMOURY CO.
A .577 (SNIDER) SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'VOLUNTEER SNIDER THREE-BAND', serial no. L2329 (25),
circa 1860, with 36 1/2in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight, commercial proofs, flip open breech-block with sprung thumb-catch, the top of block marked variously '3', 'SNIDER'S PATENT' with an arrow trademark, 'L.A.C.' and 'LONDON ARMOURY', plain bar-action lock marked with a 'V.R.' crown device at tail and signed 'JAS KERR & CO, 54 KING WILLIAM ST. E.C.' below 'L.A.C.', chequered walnut three-quarter stock (butt holed on right face with internal cavity), brass heel-plate, trigger-guard and nose-cap, three iron barrel-bands and iron jag-ended clearing rod, the whole coated in a lacquer preservative with some staining
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament