Fine Modern & Antique Arms - March 2022 : Sale A0322 Lot 707
A 4mm RIMFIRE INDOOR TARGET-RIFLE, UNSIGNED, MODEL ZIMMER-SCHUETZEN, no visible serial number,

Product Details

A 4mm RIMFIRE INDOOR TARGET-RIFLE, UNSIGNED, MODEL 'ZIMMER-SCHUETZEN', no visible serial number,
converted from a muzzle-loading rifle circa 1880, with octagonal 26 1/2in. 'barrel', loading aperture 7 1/2in. from the muzzle with rifled insert, dove-tailed three-quarter tunnel fore-sight, drilled and tapped for rear-sight (blanked off, sight absent), plain top-tang (cracked) mounted with a pan-headed aperture sight, plain nickel-plated hump-back lock, the external plated hammer connected via a plated linkage to the striker in the barrel, walnut half-stock with chequered wrist and moulded exaggerated Tyrolean cheek-piece, Swiss style plated iron heel-plate, complex plated spurred trigger-guard bow, double-set triggers and smooth fore-end with moulded tip (fore-end screw stripped)



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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