Product Details
SAMUEL & CHARLES SMITH, LONDON
A FINE AND RARE CASED 16-BORE PERCUSSION DOUBLE RIFLE, serial no. 6241,
circa 1845, with 32in. multi-faceted browned damascus barrels, the broad flat sighting rib with a dove-tailed fore-sight and a three folding one standing leaf rear-sight, signed 'SAM'L & C. SMITH, PRINCES STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON.' together with a poincon bordered in silver on a matt ground containing the words 'SMITH'S PATENT', colour-hardened breech ends fitted with 'Smiths Patent Imperial Nipples', platinum plugs, colour-hardened border-line and scroll engraved slightly curved locks signed 'SAM'L & C. SMITH, PRINCES ST. LONDON', hooked front fixings, scroll engraved hammers with 'Smith's' patent removable noses, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered at the wrist, silver rectangular escutcheon to top of wrist, iron long-spurred heel-plate with scroll and rope-twist engraving, trigger-guard en-suite, pineapple finial, engraved ram-rod throat, silver cross-bolt escutcheons, original ramrod and sling eyelets TOGETHER WITH its original walnut compartmented case lined in green baize, with a full compliment of accessories including a 'Smith's' patent nipple remover, a numbered bullet mould, a scissors ball mould, a bag-shaped powder flask with nickel-silver nozzle, a spring clamp and loading mallet, original parchment trade label to the inside of lid and a ring handle to the outside
Estimate £3,000-5,000