A RARE 1856 PATTERN PERCUSSION RIFLED SERVICE PISTOL with 10in. blued barrel, folding leaf-sights, blued flat lock stamped 'VR' crowned, and 'Tower 1858', walnut full stock struck with various inspector's marks and 'Moxham' opposite the lock, regulation brass mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate, the latter with long tang pierced for a shoulder-stock and stamped 'ELYC 3Rd T' and numbered 32, iron suspension ring, stirrup ramrod, and some original finish, dated 1858

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A RARE 1856 PATTERN PERCUSSION RIFLED SERVICE PISTOL with 10in. blued barrel, folding leaf-sights, blued flat lock stamped 'VR' crowned, and 'Tower 1858', walnut full stock struck with various inspector's marks and 'Moxham' opposite the lock, regulation brass mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate, the latter with long tang pierced for a shoulder-stock and stamped 'ELYC 3Rd T' and numbered 32, iron suspension ring, stirrup ramrod, and some original finish, dated 1858
16in.

Lot Essay

See R.E. Brooker, Jr., British Military Pistols 1603-1888, fig. 72

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