拍品 38
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A .577 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER OVAL-BORE RIFLE BY C. LANCASTER, No. 6689, 'Colonial Quality', Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks with bolted hammers, percussion fences, plain finish with traces of hardening-colour, elongated top-strap, chequered trigger-strap, figured stock with semi-pistolgrip, cheekpiece and recoil-pad, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights

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A .577 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER OVAL-BORE RIFLE BY C. LANCASTER, No. 6689, 'Colonial Quality', Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks with bolted hammers, percussion fences, plain finish with traces of hardening-colour, elongated top-strap, chequered trigger-strap, figured stock with semi-pistolgrip, cheekpiece and recoil-pad, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights
Weight 10lb., 14¾in. pull, 28in. barrels, Black Powder proof
In its canvas case

拍品專文

Lancaster's have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in 1891. H.A.A. Thorn, proprietor of Lancaster's in the late nineteenth century, was a great exponent of the oval-bore, declaring 'that there is nothing to wear out, no sharp edges to wear down', and believing that 'where there are sharp edges every shot is doing something towards wearing out the barrels'