Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield: a rare .451 Pattern 1862 Whitworth trials rifle, barrel 36 in. with 6-sided polygonal rifling, breech inscribed 'WHITWORTH PATENT', tangent/ladder back sight engraved with 'H C' to the slide, lock with crowned V.R. and 'ENFIELD 1862', full stock with iron furniture, the middle barrel band of Baddeley type and the upper and lower of ordinary screw clamp type, with snap cap and chain, slotted head ram rod. Section 58(2) - no licence required if possessed as a curiosity or ornament.

(131.5cm OAL)

The George Geear Collection