Fine Modern & Antique Guns - September 2020 : Sale A2020 Lot 722
NEUHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND A 10.4mm (VETTERLI) SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL MILBANK-AMSLER, serial no. 354,

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* NEUHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND

A 10.4mm (VETTERLI) SINGLE-SHOT SERVICE-RIFLE, MODEL 'MILBANK-AMSLER', serial no. 354,
circa 1868, with blued 30 1/2in. barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight, flip-up breech with off-set firing pin, the top signed 'NEUHAUSEN' over 'S.I.G.', Swiss proofs, blued plain unsigned hump-back lock, plain hammer, walnut full-stock with iron furniture including spurred trigger-guard, Swiss-style heavy heel-plate, two barrel bands and nose-cap with bayonet lug, double set triggers and under-barrel clearing rod, fitted with a period wooden muzzle tompion

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Estimate £300-500

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament