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184 A .577 CALIBRE SNIDER-ENFIELD SHORT RIFLED CARBINE, DATED 1869; A .450 CALIBRE WESTLEY RICHARDS ‘MONKEY TAIL’ RIFLED CARBINE, NO.1037, DATED 1862 AND A .700 CALIBRE COMPOSITE PERCUSSION RIFLED CARBINE, 19TH CENTURY the first of regulation type, with blued barrel, folding backsight, blued dated lock, full stock, and blued iron mounts (surface rust); the second of regulation type, the barrel with folding back-sight, the hinged breech with broad arrow and ‘WD’, dated lock with ‘VR’ crowned, half-stock, and brass mounts including butt-cap engraved ‘ Y/STF/146’ for the Staffodshire Yeomanry (trap cover missing); the third with sighted barrel, Continental lock with crown and ‘Tower’, three quarter stock (chipped) and iron mounts (pitted) the first: 63.5 cm; 25 in barrel (3) £700-900 185 A .400 CALIBRE CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION BREECHLOADING SMOOTH BORED TARGET GUN, CIRCA 1870 based on the Sartorius patent, with sighted barrel fitted with folding back-sight, tip-up breech-block operated by a rotary lever with knurled grip behind the breech, flush-fitting flat lock, figured walnut half-stock, iron mounts including trigger-guard and butt-cap (iron parts pitted, fore-end cap missing), and no provision for cleaning rod 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in barrel £600-800
186 A .577 CALIBRE PERCUSSION MARK III THREE BAND SNIDER-ENFIELD RIFLE, DATED 1871 with reblued sighted barrel rifled with three grooves, folding back-sight, case-hardened action and dated lock engraved with a crown on the tail, full stock, brass mounts, two iron sling swivels, and iron cleaning rod 93.0 cm; 36 ⅝ in barrel £400-500 187 A .577 CALIBRE PERCUSSION THREE BAND SNIDERENFIELD RIFLE BY WEBLEY & SON, MOOR ST., BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1880 with sighted barrel rifled with three grooves, folding backsight, signed lock (barrel and lock with areas of pitting), full stock, brass mounts, two iron sling swivels, and iron cleaning rod 93.0 cm; 36 ⅝ in barrel £250-300 188 TWO .577 CALIBRE VICTORIAN PERCUSSION THREE BAND SNIDER ENFIELD RIFLES, THE FIRST DATED 1885 AND 1861 the first rifled with three grooves (one band missing), folding back-sight, hinged breech-cover, dated lock with ‘VR’ crowned and ‘Tower’, full stock, brass mounts (iron parts pitted, cleaning rod missing); the second with sighted barrel, folding back-sight, dated lock with ‘Tower’, full stock, brass mounts and iron cleaning rod (iron parts pitted, worn) the first: 93.0 cm; 36 ⅝ in barrel (2) £400-500
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