Product Details
BENJAMIN COGSWELL, LONDON
A 60-BORE NEEDLEFIRE SINGLE-SHOT SCREW-BREECH SPORTING-RIFLE, MODEL 'RIGBY TYPE', serial no. 2169,
circa 1860 and similar to a Rigby type (q.v.) but almost certainly of Belgian origin, with rebrowned 24 1/2in. octagonal barrel, London import and Liege proofs, dove-tailed bead fore-sight, rear-sight of one standing and one folding leaf, the breech signed 'B. COGSWELL, 224 STRAND, LONDON' (rubbed), scroll engraved action (engraving worn), unmarked screw-breech, central hammer with needle, butter-knife bolt-handle with chequered faces, sliding safe of B. Cogswell style to the top-tang, walnut straight-hand butt-stock with chequered wrist, no provision for fore-end, lightly cleaned with some loss to detail
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament