Antique Guns and Equipment
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SOLD SOLD (03/12 lAY-AWAY) 1861 LAC (London Armoury Company) Snider 3 Band .577 Obsolete Calibre Rifle Regiment Marked ‘G.C.C. (unknown) 4th SX RV (4th Sussex Rifle Volunteers)’ Period Volunteer Officer’s Privately Commissioned Re-Stock Hankins Lewes - 19303 This is a very good example of the Snider 3 Band Rifle. The action plate is stamped With Queens Crown VR (Victoria Regina) and by the manufacturer 'LAC 1861' together with inspection marks. The wood has been re-stocked in the period and has chequered grip panels, no doubt a private commission by Volunteer Officer. The wood is impressed by the stock fitters which appears to be Hankins Lewes above numbers (illustrated). The wood work has the knocks bumps and bruises consistent with age and service use, brass butt plate, fore end block and trigger guard with extended tang. The butt plate tang is Regiment marked ‘G.C.C. (unknown)4th SX RV (4th Sussex Rifle Volunteers)’. The rifle has its original cleaning rod, ladder rear sight, block and blade fore sight and sling swivels. The barrel has a near mint bore clean & bright with crisp rifling and is stamped with inspection marks. It has the correct breech cover with knurled catch and has inspection marks. The cocking and firing actions are crisp. Total length is 54 ½” with a 36 ½” barrel. The price for this rifle worthy of further research regarding the Regiment marks 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 19303 £0.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 08/12) **RARE**1848 Torino Arsenal Italian Piedmont-Sardinia .750 Musket Calibre Percussion Cavalry Carbine. Sn 19365 - 19365 This is a very nice, unusual variant of the scarce Torrino Arsenal Italian Piedmont-Sardinia 750 Musket Calibre Percussion Cavalry Carbine. Prior to Italian unification in 1861, what is modern day Italy was comprised of a number of smaller kingdoms, dukedoms and states, much like the German states of that era. The island of Sardinia was one of the larger and more powerful Italian states, and by 1815 had absorbed the Kingdoms of Piedmont and Nice (which it relinquished in 1860 to France), the Duchy of Savoy, the Duchy of Monferrato, portions of the Duchy of Milan, as well as several other Italian territories. In 1861, the Kingdom of Sardinia became the founding and controlling power of the new Kingdom of Italy. During the early 1840’s the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia adopted its first percussion ignition military long arm, the Piedmont Musket. The musket was based on the French M-1822 flintlock musket, but was a percussion arm. They were produced by contractors in Liege, Belgium, as well as at the state arsenal in the capital of Torino. In 1845 the Sardinian military adopted a cavalry carbine based upon the M-1844 musket. Belgian gun makers, both in Liege, and apparently in Torino, produced these arms as well. Our Piedmont cavalry carbine has the correct brass fittings, original steel ram rod and sling swivels. It has a blade fore sight and ‘v’ notch block rear sight on the barrel shank. The 13” barrel has factory inspector’s marks and 1848 date. The barrel’s bore has faint rifling and staining & residue consistent with age & use. The action plate has Torino arsenal marks. The small carbine is 28” overall length. The gun cocks and dry fires crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB as an antique muzzle loading carbine no licence is required to own this carbine in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19365 £0.00 |
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1864 American Civil War US Army Colt Made Springfield Model 1861 .58 Calibre Percussion Rifled Musket, Converted To Carbine. Sn 19282 - 19282 Colt was contracted to supply 37,500 Springfield Model 1861 rifles to the US Army in 1864. This is one of the .58" calibre Colt made Springfield model 1861 percussion rifled muskets, converted for use as a carbine. It has a 26" barrel dated "1864" at the breech, with eagle stamp on the nipple bolster, and with 2 leaf folding rear sight and block with blade fore sight. The barrel’s rifled bore has staining and residue consistent with age and use. The lock is dated 1864 and marked "U.S./ COLTS PT. F-A MFG CO/ HARTFORD.CT"; It has been contemporarily converted to half stock with ramrod rib & ram rod beneath the barrel, with regulation pattern steel mounts including single barrel band, the butt plate tang is stamped "U.S" (Army). The action works crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading rifle no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 19282 £975.00 |
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**RARE** American Civil War Era Spencer Repeating Rifle Company 1860 Patent, .52" Obsolete Calibre Repeating Cavalry Carbine With 7 Shot Tubular Magazine. - 19281 The Spencer .52 calibre repeating carbine was designed by Christopher Spencer in 1860. It was a manually operated lever-action, repeating rifle fed from a tube magazine. It was adopted by the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Spencer had an innovative tubular magazine fed into the butt via a trap with steel latch. This is a rare, original example of Spencer’s 1860 patent in good condition. The metal work has even patina and its original wood stock has just light bumps and bruises to be expected. The 22” barrel’s bore has just light staining & crisp rifling. The action tang is numbered '39482'. The carbine measures 39” overall length. It is fitted with a flip up rear sight and block with blade fore sight. The left side of the frame is fitted with steel saddle bar, sling swivels, correct steel butt plate & tubular magazine with latch plate. The top of the breech is stamped ‘Spencer Repeating Rifle Co Boston Mass Pat’d March 6 1860’. The loading and firing actions work as they should. The price for this collectable, rare, historic rifle 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 19281 £2,450.00 |
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1859 British Volunteer Officer’s Private Purchase Enfield Tower Pattern 1856 .577 Calibre Muzzle Loading Line Regiment Sergeant’s & Rifle Brigade 2 Band Percussion Short Rifle. Sn 19291 - 19291 The Pattern 1856 was the first short rifle in the new .577 calibre family of muskets made by Enfield for the British Army. The Pattern 1856 was issued to all Sergeants of Line Regiments & the Rifle Brigade. This is an excellent volunteer officer’s private purchase Enfield Pattern 1856 short rifle. The action is dated 1859 & is marked ‘Tower’ (Enfield) together with Victorian Queen’s Crown. It has all original woodwork with steel butt plate, sling swivels, trigger guard, bayonet lug, fore end cap together with ramrod. The wood has chequered panels at the fore stock and wrist indicating this is a private purchase weapon. The wood has knocks bumps and bruises consistent with age and service use. It has a flip up rear sight, block & blade foresight. The 33” rifled barrel’s bore has staining and residue consistent with age & use. The barrel has proof inspection marks. The cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB as an antique muzzle loading percussion rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 19291 £1,250.00 |
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C1840 Durs Egg London 18 Bore Percussion Traveling Pistol With Octagonal Steel Barrel, Walnut Full Stock & Captive Steel Ram Rod. Sn 19213 - 19213 Durs Egg (1748–1831) was a Swiss-born British gunmaker, noted for his quality pistols and for his company's production of the Ferguson rifle. Egg was apprenticed in Solothurn and Paris before establishing his own business in London in 1772. He was a contemporary of Joseph Manton, Jean Samuel Pauly and the uncle of Joseph Egg. When the famous gunsmith Durs Egg died in 1831 his Son John Egg took over the business operating at Haymarket London. In 1839 The business name reverted to Durs Egg at 4 Pall Mall London until 1854 then at 4 Colonnade Pall Mall from 1855 to 1865. This is a quality percussion traveling pistol by Durs Egg. The pistol has quality hand tooled decoration on the action plate, hammer, trigger guard with pineapple finial and action tang. The pistol measures 11" overall & has a 6” octagonal steel barrel with brass bead fore sight. The top barrel flat is signed ‘D.Egg London’. The smooth bore is clean. The original walnut full stock has chequered panels at the grip. The top of the stock is inlaid with void German Silver escutcheon. The pistol has a captive steel ram rod. The cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price for this pistol by a prestigious maker includes UK delivery. NB No licence is required to own this antique percussion pistol in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19213 £875.00 |
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Victorian ‘East India Company’ Combination Tool for Percussion Rifles and Muskets. A 1096. - A 1096 A rare percussion era combination tool for the Enfield rifle used by the East India Company. The East India Company (EIC) was English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies This tool incorporates a nipple pick and nipple wrench, two screwdrivers, one of which is “scooped” so that it may be used on the typical East India Company pattern ‘bun nut’. The third arm is threaded and probably held a worm or wiper, now missing. The price includes UK postage. A 1096. £175.00 |
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European/Continental Combination Tool for Percussion Rifles and Muskets. A 1094. - A 1094 The five functions are distributed among four components: cock jaw wrench and drift; small screwdriver; large shouldered screwdriver; and priming pan scraper. The pan scraper is hinged at the centre of the other three tools, which are arranged in a triangular configuration. Very good condition and an excellent collector’s item. Price includes UK postage. A 1094. £175.00 |
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C1900 R. Raine Carlisle .295/300 Obsolete Calibre Lever Break Action Breech Loading Single Barrel Rook Rifle With External Hammer & Octagonal Barrel. Sn 19212 - 19212 This is an excellent .295/300 Obsolete Calibre lever break action rook rifle. It has a 26 ¼” octagonal barrel with tooled flat top rib and measures 42" overall. The barrel's rifled bore has staining consistent with age & use. The barrel has calibre detail .295/ 300 and is signed by the maker or retailer ‘R. Raine Carlisle’. The blued metal work has even patina. The action has a lever with thumb flat which when depressed breaks the barrel for loading. The walnut stock is undamaged and the fore stock has a polished horn end cap. The stock has steel butt plate. The weapon has fixed fore and 3 leaf rear sights graduated 50-100-150 yards. Its loading, cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price for this obsolete calibre rook rifle includes UK delivery. NB As an obsolete calibre antique rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19212 £895.00 |
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1849 British WD Enfield Tower.702 Calibre Muzzle Loading, Percussion Rifled Carbine Stock Impressed ‘Barnett Gunmakers London’. Sn 19164 - 19164 The London based Barnett family of Gunsmiths are recorded at various addresses in London from 1796 to 1908 starting with Thomas Barnett at 134 Minories who later became Thomas Barnett & Sons and later John Edward Barnett at the Minories & 37 Camomile Street, ending as JE Barnett & Sons Ltd at Brewhouse Lane, Leaman Street & Duncan Street (see page 140 of Brown’s book British Gunmakers Vol.1). This is an original British 1849 Enfield Tower made Carbine with stock marked by Barnett. It has excellent all original wood stock and original finish to the metal work. The wood is crisply impressed with ‘WD & Broad Arrow’ and most likely the stock maker’s cartouche ‘Barnett Gunmakers London’. It has a heavy military percussion hammer and the action plate is crisply stamped ‘Crown VR (Victoria Regina) & ‘Tower’ (Enfield) ‘1849’. Its 24" barrel (40” overall) is rifled and has just light staining consistent with age and use. The barrel has proofs. It has a ‘v’ notch block rear sight and block & blade fore sight. It has iron ramrod and sling swivels. The carbine also has brass fore end block, trigger guard, ram rod flutes & butt plate. The carbine cocks & dry fires crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion Carbine no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19164 £1,795.00 |
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