A .451 PERCUSSION MILITARY TARGET RIFLE with blued barrel stamped 'Turner's Patent' at the breech and cut with Turner's patent anti-fouling rifling (nipple incomplete), target sight calibrated to 1000 yards, border engraved dated lock engraved with retailer's name and foliage, figured walnut full stock (originally fitted with a further peep-sight behind the barrel tang), chequered grip and fore-end, engraved iron mounts including chequered butt-plate, two plain iron barrel bands, original brass-tipped iron ramrod stamped 'T. & C. Gilbert' (one sling swivel missing), and some original finish, retailed by John Dickson & Son, Edinburgh, dated 1860

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A .451 PERCUSSION MILITARY TARGET RIFLE with blued barrel stamped 'Turner's Patent' at the breech and cut with Turner's patent anti-fouling rifling (nipple incomplete), target sight calibrated to 1000 yards, border engraved dated lock engraved with retailer's name and foliage, figured walnut full stock (originally fitted with a further peep-sight behind the barrel tang), chequered grip and fore-end, engraved iron mounts including chequered butt-plate, two plain iron barrel bands, original brass-tipped iron ramrod stamped 'T. & C. Gilbert' (one sling swivel missing), and some original finish, retailed by John Dickson & Son, Edinburgh, dated 1860
26 1/8in. barrel

拍品專文

T. Turner's Patent No. 958 dates from 16 April, 1860