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Product Details
COLT, USA
A RARE .525 PERCUSSION REVOLVING CARBINE, MODEL '1839 PATERSON WITH ATTACHED LEVER', serial no. 873,
for between 1839-41, with two-stage multi-sided to round 23 3/4in. barrel (cleaned of finish, some shallow pitting), bead foresight, standing notch rear-sight, attached loading lever mounted to the right hand side, broad barrel wedge with twin screw stop, the left hand side of breech inscribed 'PATENT ARMS M'G CO. PATERSON. N.J. COLT'S PT.' (rubbed, mild pitting obscuring some letters), large unfluted cylinder engraved with two sets of broad lines flanked by narrow lines around the circumference and also inscribed 'PATERSON' and 'COLT'S PATENT' (rubbed, some other illegible words), internal locking and indexing, moulded hammer, long top-tang with twin nails, walnut straight-hand butt-stock with working repair at head with 'spade' shaped brass escutcheons, remodelled with an iron shotgun heel-plate from the original crescent, iron sling mount (underside of stock re-profiled around the sling mount) and guarded trigger with raised lower tang.
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Estimate £15,000-20,000