Antique Rifles and Long Guns
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1871 Dated, Enfield Pattern 1853, 3 Band .577 Percussion Calibre, Second Pattern Snider Rifle by BSA Co. Sn - 21570 This is an Enfield Pattern 1853, 3 Band percussion Snider rifle manufactured by BSA Company in 1871. The lock plate is stamped With Queens Crown VR (Victoria Regina) BSA Co and 1871 (date). The rifle is complete with its 900 yard range ladder rear sight, correct Snider hammer, block and blade fore sight , sling swivels, Baddeley barrel bands and cleaning rod. The wood work is stamped with the Enfield roundel and has the usual age related knocks, bumps and bruises. The rifle is complete with its original brass butt plate, fore end block and trigger guard with the extended tang. The breach block is stamped BSA Co on the top and the breach is stamped with ** and II signifying a second pattern breech block. The 3 groove barrel has a bright bore with well-defined 3 groove rifling together with proof marks. The cocking and firing actions are crisp. The rifle measures 54” with a 39” barrel. See Section C, Snider Arms, Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room, British Rifles, published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21590 £1,200.00 |
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ZULU WARS ERA, 1874 Dated British Martini Henry MK I Converted To MK II Rifle .577x .450 Obsolete Centre Fire Calibre Service Rifle & 1876 Pattern Bayonet . Sn - 21569 This is an early example of an original .577x .450 Martini Henry mark I converted to mark II standard, British service rifle. The rifle is fully ordnance stamped and has its original woodwork throughout. The rifle has a the long cocking indicator block and blade fore sight, flip up ladder rear sight, steel butt plate, sling swivels, correct MK II steel cleaning rod, grooved trigger & bayonet lug. The rifle has an infill below the axis pin which was a modification done in 1875 after the split axis pin was introduced to replace the earlier solid bronze axis pin fitted to early mark I rifles. The 33 ¼ “ steel barrel's bore is clean with crisp rifling and the rifle measures 49 ½” overall. The wood furniture has bumps and bruises to be expected with age and service use. The stock is stamped with the Enfield WD roundel with II stamped over I. The metal work has many WD ordnance inspection marks (illustrated). The action is stamped on the right side Crown VR (Victoria Regina) BSA & M Co (Birmingham Small Arms & Metals Company) 1874 (manufacture date) an inspection stamp Mark I to Mark II conversion designation where the first I is central over the inspection mark with the second I stamped to the right after the conversion of the rifle from a mark I to a mark II. The action works crisply. The rifle comes complete with its as found 1876 Pattern Martini Henry rifle socket bayonet. See section D, Martini arms, RB 93 - 96 on page 18 and 19 of the Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room, British Rifles, published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office and chapters 2 to 4 together with the plate on page 49 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. Sn 21569 £1,475.00 |
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**MASSIVE**19th Century North African / Moroccan/ Arabic 25 Bore Miquelet Lock Camel Musket With Decorated Brass Barrel Bands & Ram Rod. Sn 21450 - 21450 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. The muzzle loading weapons were generally handmade weapons, and consequently they widely varied in their construction. They usually had very long barrels. The stocks were handmade and ornately decorated, featuring a distinctive curve which is not seen in the stocks of other muskets. The function of this curve is debated; it may be purely decorative, or it may have allowed the weapon to be tucked under the arm and cradled tightly against the body, as opposed to being held to the shoulder like a typical musket or rifle. These type of guns were often carried by warriors mounted on Camels. This is a 19th century miquelet lock Camel musket. It measures 5 Feet 1 Inch overall length. It has a 47” sighted steel barrel which is 25 Bore. The bore has heavy staining and residue consistent with age & use. The barrel has hand tooled brass barrel bands. The shoulder stock has typical thick tropical hardwood butt plate. The musket has a steel ram rod. The weapon has the wear and patina to be expected of a native North African / Arabic weapon of its age. The lock plate and cock have naïve markings (illustrated in image 2). The cocking spring is strong but the lock does not cock. Delivery of this item will be by arrangement, at cost & within the UK only. NB As an antique miquelet musket no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21450 £475.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 15/03) Gurkha Model 1837 Brunswick Percussion .66” Calibre 2 Groove Rifle and Sword Bayonet. Sn - 21490 This is an original Gurkha model 1837 Brunswick percussion .66” 2 groove rifle complete with its original brass hilted sword bayonet and is part of the horde discovered in the old Palace of Lagan Silekhana in Katmandu, Nepal. This rifle and bayonet are in excellent condition with good wood and metal work, being manufactured at the state arsenal in Nepal. The gun has a steel back action lock plate with brass trigger guard, butt plate with a finger rest, fore end cap and barrel wedge plates. The musket is fitted with a 2 leaf rear sight, one of which is hinged and foresight together with its original mushroom head steel ram rod and 2 iron sling swivels. The musket measures 46 ½ inches in length with a 30 ¼ inch barrel where the 2 groove bore is clean with staining consistent with use. The trigger guard, inside the patch box and rear of the bayonet bar are engraved in Nepalese script as to the regimental issue. The musket’s cocking and firing action works crisply. The muzzle is fitted with a steel bayonet bar and is complete with its original brass hilted Nepalese model 1838 sword bayonet. The single edge blade has a short back edge and measures 67cm long with a 55cm blade. See pages 30 – 32 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. As an antique musket, no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21490 £0.00 |
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British, East India Company, Pattern A, Percussion .750 Calibre Muzzle Loading Percussion Carbine. Sn - 21531 This is a British East India Company Pattern A percussion .75” infantry percussion carbine. The carbine has a 27 ½ inch smoothbored barrel with London proof marks. The carbine has all original woodwork and fittings, a straight trigger guard, two rammer pipes, and a trigger guard sling swivel. The pattern A was made up of old flintlock parts and a nipple lump brazed to the barrel. this was modified in the pattern B where a complete new percussion breech section screwed on. The barrel is secured to the stock with pins. The lock plate is stamped with EIC’s Rampant Lion trademark and a crown over 8. The barrel has feint London proof marks and the stock is stamped to the right hand side with a feint roundel with what appears to be HA over P stamped within. The stock is also stamped near this with a 1 over T1. The left hand side of the stock is stamped with the number 58. The barrel carries the numbers 288 & 1176 stamped into it near the breech. The carbine measures 43 ½ inches in length with a 27 ½ inch barrel, the bore having just light staining consistent with age. The A pattern musket was produced in 1840 and a such has no rear or fore sights fitted. The cocking and firing actions work crisply. The stock has the usual knocks and bumps due to service use. Carbines such as this saw service and action in many Indian campaigns from 1845 including the 2nd Sikh War, and the Great Indian Mutiny it was used by both sides. Many of these muskets were returned to this country from the Nepal Royal Armoury. During the Mutiny, Nepal sent a contingent in support of the British on arrival in India they were armed with muskets such as this and upon return to Nepal together with Indian Mutineers who were disarmed and the weapons kept by the Nepal authorities for issue to its forces. This musket bears feint Nepalese regimental markings to the tang at the front of the butt plate, showing re issue to Nepalese troops. See pages 30 - 40 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading percussion musket and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21531 £695.00 |
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British East India Company Pattern E Percussion .750 Calibre Muzzle Loading Percussion Infantry Musket. Sn - 21529 This is a British East India Company Pattern E percussion .75” infantry musket. The musket has a 39 inch smoothbored barrel with London proof marks. The musket has all original woodwork with the correct Brunswick pattern spurred trigger guard, three rammer pipes, both sling swivels, the unique pattern E.I.C. spring bayonet catch protruding through the nose-cap. The musket is complete with the correct and original E.I.C. pattern ramrod. The pattern E introduced barrel keys or wedges to secure the barrel to the stock instead of pins. The lock plate is stamped with EIC’s Rampant Lion trademark with a double line border. The musket measures 55 inches in length with a 39 inch barrel, the bore having just light staining consistent with age. The E pattern musket was produced between 1842 and 1845 and was replaced with the pattern F. The cocking and firing actions work crisply. Muskets such as this saw service and action in many Indian campaigns from 1845 including the 2nd Sikh War, and the Great Indian Mutiny it was used by both sides. Many of these muskets were returned to this country from the Nepal Royal Armoury. During the Mutiny Nepal sent a contingent in support of the British on arrival in India they were armed with muskets such as this and upon return to Nepal together with Indian Mutineers who were disarmed and the weapons kept by the Nepal authorities for issue to its forces. This musket bears Nepalese regimental stampings under the trigger guard showing re issue to Nepalese troops. See pages 32 - 36 & 123 - 128 including the plates in Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique muzzle loading percussion musket and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21529 £875.00 |
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**RARE**NAPOLEONIC WARS ERA**Imperial Prussian Model 1723 / 40 Potsdam Dragonergewehr (Dragoon / Mounted Infantry) .73 Calibre Muzzle Loading Flintlock Musket With Later Pre 1846 TY (County Tyrone) Irish Registration Marks. Sn 21521 - 21521 These days a 1723/1740 Potsdam Infantry Musket is a rare find, but the much less produced 1726 dragoon version ('Dragonergewehr") is exceptionally rare. The Dragoon musket is distinguished by the diamond shaped carvings on the stock instead of the rounded equivalent found on the Infantry model. When Frederick the Great came to the throne in 1740 he standardised the bore of the barrels of all service muskets at .73 and the length at 35". Existing .67 bore 41" barrels were either shortened or replaced, as seems perhaps to be the case with this .73 example. Also, here the "FR" Royal cypher on the brass thumb plate is an early impression and distinct from the later more common version. In addition, the forend has been shortened and the heavy iron ramrod discarded in favour of a wooden one. In 1726, when the Dragonergewehr was conceived, dragoons were purely mounted infantry and armed with what were essentially infantry muskets. However, by the 19th century dragoons had predominantly become cheap cavalry, and were armed with carbines or short muskets, rendering the original Dragonergewehr cumbersome and obsolete - with no lighter replacement available in the case of the Prussian army. This would account for the stock and ramrod modifications in an attempt to make the musket more fit for purpose. As the Royal Armouries at Leeds points out..."What happened in Prussia during Napoleon's invasion resulted in some wierd and wonderful things being cobbled together. Standardisation went out of the window and the Prussians turned up at Waterloo with many things, some standard issue, others not". In the campaign culminating with Waterloo in 1815, the Prussians mobilised everything they could - fielding some 115,000 troops and every available weapon. So it is highly likely that this particular musket would have been involved in the battles of Ligny and /or Waterloo. The musket's subsequent history is unknown, except that the barrel and butt plate display an Irish compulsory registration number for County Tyrone, indicating that for some reason it had made its way to Ireland before 1846 (illustrated in the images). Our example of the Dragonergewehr is in excellent condition. It has all original wood and brass fittings throughout. It has a heavy military cock, brass pan & the lock plate has the Potsdam arsenal mark. It has a small post fore sight and shallow groove action tang rear sight. The rifle’s wood ram rod has a brass cap and tip. The rifle’s cocking and firing actions work crisply. The smoothbore is clean. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading flintlock musket no licence is required to own this item if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21521 £1,795.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 26/04) **MINT BORE**Victorian British R B Rodda Gunmakers To His Excellency The Viceroy London & Calcutta Snider Action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express Obsolete Calibre Tiger / Lion Hunting Short Rifle / Carbine. Sn 21520 - 21520 R.B. Rodda claimed to have been established in 1830 although in reality it traces its roots much further back than that, to around 1805, originally trading as Brown and Cooper. This was the company that Richard Burrows Rodda joined in 1830, and although the history is a bit sketchy the company name probably became Brown, Cooper and Rodda at that time. In 1846 Brown left the company and it became Cooper and Rodda, and the following year in 1847 Cooper also departed leaving R.B. Rodda as the sole proprietor. Rodda renamed the company R.B. Rodda & Co. based at 36, Piccadilly, London. About three years after this R.B. Rodda & Co. opened another shop, this time in the Indian city of Calcutta at 5 ½ Tank Square, a place that would be renamed Dalhousie Square in 1872, with the result that the address of the company would become 7 & 8 Dalhousie Square. Prior to that however, around the time of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 Richard Burrows Rodda left India and migrated to the United States with most of his extended family. Sadly Rodda passed away that year and so the company was taken over by William Henry Taylor, who was the brother of Rodda’s brother in law. R.B. Rodda & Company became primarily exporters/importers of guns and rifles based out of their Calcutta premises throughout the period up until Indian Independence in 1947, at which point the business was sold to Indian industrialists who diversified it away from the gun trade and into marine and other engineering work. During the period in which they were trading R.B. Rodda & Co. became well respected for the quality of the guns and rifles they sold, and their guns came to be used not only in India but throughout the European colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya (Malaysia), and French Indo China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and Burma (Myanmar). This Snider action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express rifle made by R B Rodda, prominent London and Calcutta gunmakers of dangerous game rifles is in excellent condition. At only 39” overall and with a 21” barrel, this rifle weighs in at a mere 6 1/3 lbs. The top of the barrel is marked "R B Rodda & Co. Gunmakers to His Excellency The Viceroy. London and Calcutta". The barrel and action have proofs. The neat "bar-in-wood" style lock plate is border engraved and displays the signature "R B Rodda & Co". This rifle is clearly intended to be agile for sudden use in dense undergrowth or forest, where a Tiger would only become visible at close range, although it is fitted with triple leaf sights out to 300 yards. The bore of this Express Rifle is mint, and the rifling shallow - probably to reduce the torque effect at the wrist that more aggressive rifling would cause in a sporter of this weight, compromising aim. In any case, a rifle this light firing an express load would kick like a mule! From around 1870 the .577 BPE cartridge was considered the best load for dangerous game. The famous big game hunter John "Pondoro" Taylor, in his book "African Rifles and Cartridges", described the .577 BPE as the most popular cartridge for shooting Tiger in India and that professional Lion hunters in Africa generally preferred it to anything else. This particular rifle is a sturdy and unpretentious practical hunting weapon, having been purpose built as an express rifle to accommodate the 2 ½” BPE cartridge, rather than the standard 2” round which the many converted military Sniders used. This is an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21520 £0.00 |
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1832-1842 Victorian English Robert Braggs 36 High Holborn London 14 Bore Double Barrelled Muzzle Loading Percussion Shotgun. Sn 21481 - 21481 Robert Braggs was an English London based gun and archery manufacturer recorded as working between 1825 & 1831 at 37 High Holborn and at 36 High Holborn between 1832 & 1842 (see page 144 of Brown’s book British Gunmakers Vol 1). This is a 14 bore double barrel muzzle loading percussion shotgun made by Robert Braggs at his 36 High Holborn premises between 1832 & 1842. It has all original Walnut furniture which has just light bumps and bruises consistent with age and use. The wrist has chequered grip panels. The shotgun with double 30” steel barrels has double hammers & triggers. It measures 45 ½” overall. The barrel rib has a bead fore sight. The action plates have hunting dogs and game birds in the field scenes and are signed by the maker ‘Braggs London’. The barrel rib is signed ‘Braggs 36 High Holborn London’. The cocking & firing actions of the weapon work. The barrel’s smooth bores have staining & residue consistent with age & use. The gun has an ebonised wood ram rod with brass end cap and brass tip which unscrews to reveal a steel worm. 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 21481 £375.00 |
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**QUALITY LARGE 8 BORE**C1860 Obsolete Calibre Top Lever Break Action Breech Loading Single Barrel Sporting Shotgun Gun. Sn 21475 - 21475 This is a quality made breech loading break action sporting shotgun gun made C1860. It is 8 bore black powder obsolete calibre and has a 34 ½” round steel sighted barrel. Its smooth bore is clean. It has walnut stock with chequered wrist & fore stock panels. The underside of the shoulder stock has a void brass escutcheon. The wood has just light bumps and bruises consistent with age and use. There are no visible external maker marks on the gun. Its top lever break action, cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre shotgun no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of collection or display. Sn 21475 £1,275.00 |
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