Product Details
A CASED .500 PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE SIGNED SAMUEL & C. SMITH, LONDON, serial no. 3647,
circa 1840, with shortened 26in. multi-groove rifled octagonal 'in the white' damascus barrel, original dove-tailed blade fore-sight, later dove-tailed standing notch rear-sight with two additional folding leaves, the top-flat signed 'SAMUEL & *****TH, PRINCES STREET LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON' (**** section obscured by the rear-sight), colour hardened breech-block with four platinum lines and screwed plug, fully engraved top-tang, borderline and feathered scroll engraved lock signed 'SAMUEL & C. SMITH, PRINCES ST. LONDON', engraved and colour hardened hammer with sliding safe, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, blued iron furniture including square-fronted trigger guard bow with chequered face, double set triggers, white metal escutcheons and fore-end tip, brass mounted heavy duty ramrod, strong traces of colour and finish except where noted and together with a green baize lined period walnut case almost certainly original to the rifle retaining a brass hollow-based mould and a japanned cap-tin
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Estimate £1,000-1,500