Product Details
CHARLES LANCASTER, LONDON
A GOOD 14-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT SPORTING-RIFLE, serial no. 661*,
circa 1835, with twist iron multi-grooved 30in. octagonal barrel signed on the top-flat 'CHARLES LANCASTER 151 NEW BOND ST. LONDON', dove-tailed fore-sight, drift adjustable standing notch rear-sight with three additional folding leaves, platinum line and engraved bands to the colour-hardened breech-block also featuring a rectangular platinum poincon signed 'CHARLES LANCASTER, LONDON', carved snail with platinum vented plug, engraved top-tang featuring a standing stag, border, scroll and gamescene engraved bar-action lock signed in two banners 'CHARLES LANCASTER' and 'LONDON', scroll engraved dolphin headed hammer with sliding safety, walnut half-stock chequered at the wrist, silver escutcheoned socket for a wrist sight (absent) adjusted via a key-way through the lower tang, raised tear-drop cheek-piece, engraved iron furniture including blued trigger-guard bow with chequered raised grip-spur, moulded ramrod throat, plain ramrod thimbles and original mahogany ramrod with mushroom headed horn pommel
Provenance: * Serial number is present on the inside of lock only, having been removed from trigger-guard
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Estimate £1,800-2,200