Antique Rifles and Long Guns
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British, Volunteer Martini Henry MK III, Rifle .577x .450 Obsolete Centre Fire Calibre Service Rifle. Sn - 22461 The Martini Henry mark 1 rifle was approved for service on the 17th July 1874. This is a Martini Henry mark 3 rifle which was approved for service in august 1879. The forend was modified to a hook system from a steel cross pin. The action carries Birmingham proof marks for 52 bore (.45 inch bore). The rifle carries the correct mark 3 cleaning rod and both sling swivels are present. The rifle has a good clean bore with good Henry rifling. The rifle carries the serial number 4769 on the left hand side of the barrel. The wood furniture is in excellent condition with very few marks and has a nice smooth finish. The action works crisply and the barrel, action and fittings retain a smooth finish. See section D, Martini arms, RB 79 on page 19 of the Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room, British Rifles, published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office and pages 86 - 90 in The Martini-Henry for Queen and Empire by Neil Aspinshaw. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Snx 22461 £1,475.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 03/04) Early, Quality, 1813 Dated Spanish Form, Eibar, 16 Bore Miquelet Flint Lock Shotgun. - A 1125 Miquelet lock is a modern term used by collectors and curators, largely in the English-speaking world, for a type of firing mechanism used in muskets and pistols. It is a distinctive form of snaplock, originally as a flint-against-steel ignition form, once prevalent in Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Balkans, North Africa, the Ottoman Empire and throughout Spain's colonies from the late 16th to the mid 19th Centuries. The miquelet may have come to the attention of arms makers in Istanbul & North Africa via long-established trade routes from Italian city-states through the port of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) to provinces on the Balkan Peninsula. Other avenues were probably provided by booty from corsair raids and/or from the many Ottoman-Euro conflicts of the period. This is a decorative Miquelet lock 16 bore shotgun made in Eibar, Spain. Th shotgun has an elaborately turned and shaped barrel which has gold and silver infill in the engraving. The iron barrel measures 18 his long and is held in by a single wedge and the walnut stock measures 34 inches. The barrel is profusely decorated with silver inlay at the breach, near the muzzle and round the manufacturers mark in gold round the middle part. The octagonal barrel is turned to a round form 1/3 if the distance from the muzzle and is inlaid in gold round the middle is FABRICADO IN EIBAR ANI D 1813 (Made in Eiba AD 1813 [date]). The barrel has a gold foresight. The breech bears the Fluer-de-lis cross, crown and an armourers shield marked GPR A GUI RRK in the shield. The shotgun has elaborate iron fittings with the trigger guard having a pineapple finial. The butt and trigger guard have fine scroll engraving. The barrel has a smooth finish with staining and residue from use. The woodwork carries minor bumps and bruises from use. The lockplate carries an armourers shield and the frizzen carries fine engraving. The cock is fitted with flint and the action works as it should. The original Walnut full stock furniture has just bumps and bruises to be expected. The stock is fitted with iron belt bar which has tooled decoration. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique Miquelet lock flintlock pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. A 1125 £0.00 |
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Enfield, 1860 Dated, Snider 2 Band .577 Obsolete Calibre Short Rifle, Chained Nipple Protector & 1 x Inert Deactivated Round Marked to; the 66th Regiment of Foot. - A 1124 This is an excellent Enfield made .577 Snider 2 band rifle. The rifle was originally made as a breech loading percussion service rifle and was later converted to the Snider breechloading system to continue in British service. The rifle has all original wood work in excellent condition with only minor marks from service use. The rifle has the regulation brass fittings with iron barrel bands and ramrod. The barrel retains much of its original blued finish and has an excellent bore with well defined rifling with minor staining and residue from use. The rifle carries Enfield inspection/proof marks. The breech also carries Enfield inspection/proof marks as well as SNIDERS PATENT stamped on the top. The rifle is fitted with the plain style Enfield lockplate and is stamped 1860 ENFIELD, a queens crown over V.R (Victoria Regina) and 2 inspection marks. The total length is 43 inches with a 28 inch barrel. The rifle is fitted with a 2* breech and has the correct hinged cover. The breech has snider’s Patent mark. The stock carries an excellent Enfield roundel to the right hand side ‘R,M ENFIELD WD and a crowfoot. Behind this near the butt plate is stamped D C. the top of the brass butt plate is stamped 66 over 361. (66th [Berkshire] Regiment of Foot which was raised in 1758 and was merged in 1881 into The Princess Charlotte of Wales’s {Berkshire Regiment}), gun number 361. The action is fitted with link chained nipple protector. The cocking & firing action work crisply. The rifle comes with a single Inert Deactivated Round of Kynoch .577 Ammunition. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rifle no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. A 1124 £1,295.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 26/02) **MINT BORE**American Civil War Era Burnside Rifle Co Providence Rhode Island Model Of 1864 .54 Calibre Single Shot Lever Action Breach Loading Cavalry Carbine With Saddle Bar & Ring. Sn 22444 - 22444 The Burnside Carbine was a popular carbine rifle fielded across all of the major battlefronts of the American Civil War. The weapon was developed by Ambrose E. Burnside. Burnside was an Officer in the Union Army but gave up his position in order to concentrate on developing the gun. The Burnside Carbine made use of a specially-designed cartridge, this being a brass .54 calibre cartridge developed by Burnside himself. His new weapon and corresponding cartridge did much to eliminate the leaked hot gasses that were common when firing other breech-loading weapons of the time. Production of the carbine was handled by the Burnside Rifle Company and the Bristol Firearms Company of Providence, Rhode Island. This is a very good, original example of the Burnside carbine. The metal work has even patina and its all original wood stock has just the bumps and bruises to be expected. The 21" barrel’s bore is near mint clean & bright with well defined rifling. It measures 39 ½” overall. It is fitted with a 2 leaf flip up rear sight and pinched blade fore sight together with steel saddle bar & ring. It is also fitted with rear sling swivel and steel butt plate. The top of the action and frame are stamped with numbers 7141 and 14563 together with ‘Burnside Patent Model Of 1864’. It also has faint manufacturer detail ‘Burnside Rifle Co Providence Rhode Island’ on the action plate. The loading and firing actions work crisply. The price for this piece of American Civil War history includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre weapon no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22444 £0.00 |
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**PRESTIGIOUS MAKER**GUN REFERENCED IN THE BOOK HOLLAND & HOLLAND BY DALLAS**1858-1860 Victorian English, Harris Holland 98 New Bond Street London Large 6 Bore, Double Barrelled Muzzle Loading ‘Live Pigeon Competition’ Percussion Sporting Shotgun. - 22458 1870 Holland & Holland did not exist. In fact, it would be six years before the firm’s founder, Harris Holland, was to take in his nephew Henry and create the iconic brand which now graces London’s Bruton Street. Harris Holland was a was a good shot with both rifle and shotgun, regularly competing in live-pigeon competitions at Hornsey Wood Tavern. He appears to have gained enough kudos among fellow shooters for them to start asking him to get them guns and rifles like the ones he used so successfully himself. Seeing a clear business opportunity, Harris ordered guns made to his specification. 98 New Bond Street London was Harris Holland’s address from 1858. His nephew Henry Holland joined him in 1876, when Holland & Holland became the company style. It was not until 1893 that Holland & Holland built their factory on Harrow Road London. This is a best quality double barrel muzzle loading shotgun by Harris Holland made at his 98 New Bond Street Address. This actual gun features in Donald Dallas’s book page 10 ‘Holland & Holland The Royal Gunmaker The Complete History’ where images of its action are illustrated and the author comments “A typical Harris Holland big bore live pigeon muzzle loader. The gun is 6 bore with no serial number, barrel’s engraved H. Holland 98 New Bond Street helps date it to 1858-1860. The barrels are 34” long with Platinum plugs. The front action locks with flat hammers are engraved in flowing scripts and are of good quality. There is no provision for ram rod, the fore end ending in a horn finial. There is only one double 6 bore listed in the number books for this period number 652 built in 1858 and this could be this gun. In the early period although guns were given a serial number in records under order such numbers were often not engraved” (a photocopy image of the cover of Dallas’ book, photo copies of the book illustrations of the action and author comments accompany the piece and are illustrated in the images). The shotgun has all the features of the gun described in the book, correctly without serial number. The gun has best quality tooled foliate decoration to the action and trigger guard with pineapple finial and steel butt plate tang. The fore stock and wrist have finely chequered grip panels. The original undamaged Walnut fore stock’s polished horn end cap correctly has no provision for ram rod. The underside of the all original Walnut shoulder stock is inlaid with void white metal escutcheon. It has platinum plugs at the breech. Its 34” brown twist barrels have a centre rib signed ‘H. Harris 98 New Bond Street London’ (49 ½” overall). The smooth bores have just light staining consistent with age and light use. The rib has a brass bead fore sight at the muzzle and a shallow groove in the top of the action acts as a rear sight. Both action plates are signed ‘Holland’. The actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading percussion shotgun no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22458 £4,950.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (20/03) *1881 American Winchester Model 1876 Lever Action .45-75 Winchester Centre Fire Calibre Buffalo / Big Game Hunting Rifle With Octagonal Barrel. Sn 22456 - 22456 The Winchester Model 1876 was a heavier-framed rifle than the Model 1866 or Model 1873 and was the first to be chambered for full-powered centre fire rifle cartridges, as opposed to rim fire cartridges or handgun-sized centre fire rounds. The .45-75 Winchester is a centerfire rifle cartridge developed in 1876 for the newly designed Winchester Model 1876 lever-action rifle. Winchester Repeating Arms Company introduced the rifle and cartridge at the United States Centennial Exposition. The Model 1876 rifle used an enlarged version of the famous Winchester Model 1873 action to offer a lever-action repeating rifle using cartridges suitable for big-game hunting. The cartridge and rifle enjoyed brief popularity with Gilded Age American hunters including Theodore Roosevelt, and was issued to the Canadian North-West Mounted Police and to Texas Rangers. This is an excellent original example of the 1876 lever action rifle in the large 45-75 Winchester centre fire calibre. It has a 28” barrel which has a near mint bore, clean and bright with crisp rifling & measures 49" overall length. It has all original undamaged Walnut woodwork and blued metal work with original finish. The breech tang is crisply stamped 'Model 1876' and the top of the barrel is crisply stamped 'Winchester Repeating Arms Co New Haven CT King’s Improvement Patented March 29 1866 October 16 1860’ (the patent refers to a convenient new type of loading gate, devised by Winchester plant superintendent Nelson King ‘King’s Improvement’). The weapon is serial number 15349 which dates its manufacture to 1881. The barrel is correctly without calibre marking (Model 1876 rifles were chambered for .45-75 WCF Calibre, early production guns were without calibre detail, later production models had calibre markings). It has an adjustable flip up graduated rear sight, brass blade foresight, steel butt plate with brass sliding trap, steel fore end block, sliding breech dust cover and full length tube magazine. It's lever, loading and firing actions work crisply. The price for this impressive rifle includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22456 £0.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (20/03) 1863 Dated, Enfield, Pattern 1853, 4th Model, 3 Band .577 Percussion Calibre Rifle. Sn - 22426:48 This is a 1863 dated. Pattern 1853, 3 Band percussion rifle. This rifle is the fourth and final pattern of the three band rifles and differs by having the two lower barrel bands of the Baddley pattern. Most of the 4th pattern rifles were converted to the Snider breech loading system having been kept in store and not issued. This is a percussion 3 band pattern 1953, 4th model made in 1863 with a 39 inch barrel with an overall length of 55 inches. The later plain lockplate is stamped with the Queens crown over V.R. the Enfield inspection mark 1863 (date) ENFIELD, a later Endian Broad arrow inspection mark over SR (Sind Rifles). This rifle in later service was sent to India and issued to the 3rd or Sind, Punjab and Indus Valley Railways Volunteer Rifle Corps who were raised to protect armoured trains on the North West Frontier in India. The rifle is fitted with the correct 2 lower Baddeley barrel bands. The woodwork is in very good condition with only minor bumps and bruises expected with service use. The rifles brass butt plate is stamped 238 VP 632 A on the top, the number 632 struck out by crosses. The left hand side of the butt has a 1 ½ inch diameter brass plate inlaid in it which is engraved at the top F ,in the centre HS3 and ???VECK at the bottom. The wood work complete with its original brass butt plate, fore end block and trigger guard with extended tang. The barrel has staining and residue from use. The cocking and firing actions are crisp. This is a nice British percussion 3 band final pattern of the 1853 rifle which after British service, the rifle was transferred to Indian service and survived not being converted into a Snider rifle. See Page 71, item 68 in British Military Longarms 1815 - 1865. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading rifle and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22426:48 £0.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (27/03) British, Victorian Martini Cape Rifle .577x 450 Obsolete Calibre by Issac Hollis, London. - A 1121 Isaac Hollis and Sons were London based Victorian gun makers recorded as operating in 1861. Throughout the years, Hollis manufactured quality sporting firearms and rifles for the British Government. About 1915, Hollis merged to form the company of Hollis, Bentley and Playfair. They remained in business until 1935. This is nice Martini actioned Cape rifle made by Issac Hollis with .450 inch Henry rifling firing the .577x 450 Martini Henry military cartridge. The cape rifle has a 26 inch steel barrel and measures 42 ¼ inches overall. The top of the barrel is nicely stamped with the makers name I.HOLLIS & SONS LONDON and carries the serial number 44403 in front of the trigger guard. The rifle is fitted with a cape rear sight with a fixed leaf at 100 yards, two folding blades for 200 and 300 yards and a ladder sight graduated to 1000yards, each engraved with a platinum line. The foresight has a long round bead. The action, trigger guard, breach block and, cocking lever are nicely engraved with fine scroll engraving, the cocking lever having an enlarged rounded and hollow end for ease of use and is retained by a concealed spring catch in the pistol grip. The rifle is fitted with a side mounted safety catch fitted to the right hand side of the action. The rifle has a finely figured chequered walnut pistol gripped stock with a horn forend tip and pistol grip cap. The rifle is fitted with sling attachments to the barrel and stock which has a blank silver escutcheon fitted behind the rear sling swivel. The barrel has nicely defined rifling has just light staining & residue consistent with age. The metal work has even aged patina. The cocking & firing action works crisply. The price for this antique obsolete calibre rifle includes UK delivery and no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. A 1121 £0.00 |
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*MINT BORE* *RARE*. Danish, Model M1848/65 Snider Conversion (17.5x28R) of the Model1848 Bagladeriffel Pillar Breech Percussion Obsolete Calibre Rifle. Sn - 22426:33 This is a rare Danish Model M1848/65 (1851 dated) Snider converted rifle that was converted from the Model 1848 Bagladeriffel pillar breech percussion rifle. The rifles were converted in 1865 to the Snider breechloading mechanism at the Copenhagen Arsenal. The rifle has a mint bore with sharp rifling. The lockplate is stamped with the Danish royal cypher over MD 1848 1851-45 (indicating a Model MD-1848 manufactured in 1851) serial number 45. The rifle has a full walnut stock which is in a lovely condition with only minor marks to it. The rifle has a brass butt plate, trigger guard and side plate. There are three iron barrel bands, the lower one held by a spring clip, the middle one retained by the screw through the sling swivel and the top one which has the foresight fixed on the top. The lower sling swivel is attached to the rifles lower butt. The iron patchbox from the muzzle loading rifle is retained. The rifles rearsight adjustment is by releasing a side screw and sliding the rear sight in an arced track near the breech for elevation. The breech is opened by pushing in a button on the left hand side of the breech and flipping the block over. Extraction is in the usual Snider manner by pulling the breech block back and turning the rifle upside down. The serial numbers on the rifle are matching, 45 for the original muzzle loading rifle and 4924 for the Snider conversion. The woodwork is in very good condition with only minor bumps and bruises expected with service use. The rifle retains its original sling swivels. At the time, the Danish rifle fired the worlds largest diameter rimfire rifle cartridge. The weapon’s loading, cocking and firing actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. As an obsolete calibre antique firearm no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22426:33 £1,375.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (17/03) Enfield, 1867 Pattern, Bengal Cavalry Smoothbore Percussion Carbine, .656” Bore. Sn - 22426:15 This is nice, original Enfield Pattern 1867 Bengal Cavalry smoothbore percussion carbine, .656” bore. This was the first pattern smoothbore Indian pattern carbine produced after the Indian Mutiny. After the Indian mutiny, Indian soldiers and armed personal were only given smoothbore not rifled weapons. These smoothbore carbines were made for the Indian government, this version was for issue to the Native Indian Mounted Police and troops and were used during the Indian/Sepoy Mutiny of 1858-59. The carbine has a barrel length of 21 inches with an overall length of 36 ½ inches and is stamped on the left had side with Enfield proof marks. The lockplate is stamped with the Queens crown over VR the Enfield acceptance mark 1868 (date) ENFIELD and the Indian acceptance mark. The barrel has a nice smooth finish and is retained by 2 Baddeley barrel bands which are stamped with the WD Enfield inspection stamps. The carbine is fitted with a wide u notch rear sight, an Enfield type blade foresight. The carbine is fitted with brass furniture with the correct brass 2 piece butt plate which carries the WD stamp and a crowfoot, fore end cap together with a steel captive swivelling ramrod, saddle bar & ring. The .656 inch bore barrel has a nice clean bore with mild staining due to age and service. The carbine is fitted with a walnut stock with nice smooth woodwork and the normal bumps and bruises due to service life. The right hand side of the butt is stamped with the Enfield roundel R crown M ENFIELD with the Indian arrow in the centre, over I (class 1 weapon) together with another acceptance stamp behind the brass trigger guard. The carbines cocking & firing actions work crisply. See RB 50 on page 9, Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room, British Rifles, published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22426:15 £0.00 |
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