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 | Christie's

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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

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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.

拍品專文

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