Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A .50 capping breech-loading military rifle of experimental type, barrel 39 in., ladder back sight with a single saw-tooth projection to the sight bed, action closed by a baffle hinged at the left and with a large ring handle to the right, deep through-way for a cartridge above the barrel tang, conventional percussion lock with plain lock plate, full stocked in the manner of a rifle musket with three barrel bands, the stock formed with a projecting bed below the action hinge, jag head clearing rod, possibly constructed according to Shedden's patent. Section 58(2) - no licence required if possessed as a curiosity or ornament.

(140.8cm OAL)

The George Geear Collection

Stock cracked through at rear of lock. Repaired and holding together but crack is much in evidence.