Product Details
ALLEN & WHEELOCK, USA
A .41 RIMFIRE SINGLE-SHOT FALLING-BLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, MODEL '1860 PATENT', serial no. 735,
circa 1861, with octagonal to round 26in. barrel, the top-flat near breech signed 'ALLEN & WHEELOCK' over 'ALLEN'S PATENT SEPT 18 1860', dove-tailed fore-sight, elevating tangent rear-sight operating against a scale on the action body, moulded receiver with vertically dropping breech operated via a lever forming the trigger-guard bow, external hammer, integral rotating disk peep-sight mounted at top-tang, hardwood butt-stock (some filled repairs and re-figuring with ink), iron semi-crescent heel-plate with central trapdoor and walnut splinter fore-end
Provenance: This rifle is built to Ethan Allen's patent 30,033 of September 18 1860
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Estimate £700-900
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament