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169 A .700 CALIBRE PERCUSSION RIFLE OF MILITARY TYPE BY FRED BARNES, TOWER HILL, LONDON, CIRCA 1840 of Brunswick type, with tapering sighted barrel rifled with four shallow grooves, fitted with bayonet bar on the right of the muzzle, folding back-sight graduated to 800 yards, signed border-engraved lock, figured walnut full stock, brass mounts comprising trigger-guard with iron sling swivel, butt-plate, two ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap (forward sling swivel and one trigger-guard screw missing), and brass-tipped wooden ramrod 77.0 cm; 30 ⅜ in barrel Frederick Barnes was a sword cutler, wholesale Gunmaker and Percussion cap and Accoutrement maker recorded at Tower Hill, circa 1847-50. £500-700 170 A .650 CALIBRE PERCUSSION CAVALRY CARBINE, DATED 1844; AND A .700 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK CAVALRY CARBINE, CIRCA 1820 the first with tapering sighted barrel, standing back-sight, struck with Ordnance marks over the breech, dated lock with ‘VR’ crowned and ‘Tower’, walnut full stock, brass trigger-guard and butt-plate, saddle bar, and swivel ramrod (iron parts pitted, saddle ring missing); the second with tapering sighted barrel, associated rounded lock (iron parts pitted), full stock (repaired) and brass mounts the first: 50.8 cm; 20 in barrel (2)
171 A .577 CALIBRE PERCUSSION 1853 PATTERN FIRST MODEL THREE BAND ENFIELD RIFLE, DATED 1856 of regulation type, with Liège barrel struck with Ordnance marks and rifled with three grooves, dated lock with ‘VR’ crowned and stamped ‘P19’, regulation stock, brass mounts, iron sling swivels and ramrod 99.0 cm; 39 in barrel £350-450 172 A .577 CALIBRE PERCUSSION 1853 PATTERN FIRST MODEL THREE BAND ENFIELD RIFLE, DATED 1856 of regulation type, the barrel with Ordnance marks and rifled with three grooves, dated lock with crown and ‘Windsor’, regulation stock, brass mounts, iron sling swivels, ramrod and bayonet 99.0 cm; 39 in barrel £350-400 173 A .577 CALIBRE PERCUSSION 1853 PATTERN FIRST MODEL THREE BAND ENFIELD RIFLE, DATED 1857 of regulation type, the barrel with Ordnance marks and rifled with three grooves, dated lock with ‘VR’ crowned, regulation stock with Ordnance marks on the right of the butt, brass mounts, and iron sling swivels (iron parts polished bright) 99.0 cm; 39 in barrel £250-350
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