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A 17TH CENTURY 25-BORE WHEELOCK SPORTING RIFLE, UNSIGNED, no visible serial number, circa 1695, with slightly swamped octagonal 32in. rifled barrel, dove-tailed fore-sight, dove-tailed rear-sight with carved foot, folding leaf and standing straight-cut plate, solid plain flared top-tang, flat lock-plate with concealed internal wheel and fully engraved with borders, scrolls and a scene of a horseman with hunting dogs pursuing a stag in a woodland setting (fine shallow pitting), fully engraved slab-sided pyrites holder with en-suite bridle and carved spring, automatic pan-cover, walnut full-stock with typical lozenge-form butt and raised carvings around the margins, further engraved bone inlays and mounts, replacement wood lid for patchbox, period replacement simplistic peep-sight to wrist, complex brass finger-grooved trigger guard with later additional finger-spur, hogs-bristle double set trigger, wingnut side-nails, engraved bone ramrod pipes and replacement bone-tipped ramrod, the whole with some restoration and together with a file of paperwork documenting its restoration by P. Dyson of the Royal Armouries in 1999.

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A 17TH CENTURY 25-BORE WHEELOCK SPORTING RIFLE, UNSIGNED, no visible serial number, circa 1695, with slightly swamped octagonal 32in. rifled barrel, dove-tailed fore-sight, dove-tailed rear-sight with carved foot, folding leaf and standing straight-cut plate, solid plain flared top-tang, flat lock-plate with concealed internal wheel and fully engraved with borders, scrolls and a scene of a horseman with hunting dogs pursuing a stag in a woodland setting (fine shallow pitting), fully engraved slab-sided pyrites holder with en-suite bridle and carved spring, automatic pan-cover, walnut full-stock with typical lozenge-form butt and raised carvings around the margins, further engraved bone inlays and mounts, replacement wood lid for patchbox, period replacement simplistic peep-sight to wrist, complex brass finger-grooved trigger guard with later additional finger-spur, hogs-bristle double set trigger, wingnut side-nails, engraved bone ramrod pipes and replacement bone-tipped ramrod, the whole with some restoration and together with a file of paperwork documenting its restoration by P. Dyson of the Royal Armouries in 1999.

Estimate 2 000 - 3 000 GBP
Starting price 2 000 GBP

* Not including buyer’s premium.
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For sale on Monday 29 Jul - 09:00 (BST)
wolferton-norfolk, United Kingdom
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