Product Details
A RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, CASED .524 PERCUSSION JACOB'S DOUBLE RIFLE BY C.P. SWINBURN & SON, no visible serial number, with bayonet,
dated for 1858, with blued 24in. barrels (faded and browned), raised flat top-rib with dove-tailed beaded-blade fore-sight, ladder rear-sight graduated to 2000 yards, and with two further folding leaves, plain colour hardened bar-action locks signed 'C.P. SWINBURN & SON' together with the date, plain figured walnut half-stock, iron patch-box to right hand side of butt, the lid engraved 'GENERAL JOHN JACOB'S PATTERN ARMY DOUBLE RIFLE' and 'MANUFACTURED BY C.P. SWINBURN & SONS, BIRMINGHAM', iron heel-plate and trigger guard with pistol grip raised chequered tang, iron barrel-band and ramrod of unique form, complete with its rare substantial walnut casing (lid cracked lengthways, some compartments loose), constructed to take the assembled rifle full length and containing an original 'Jacob's Rifle' bayonet of usual form with 30 1/4in. double edged twin-fullered blade, pierced iron half-basket with figure '8' muzzle ring, chequered hard rubber grips (some smoothing), light staining to hilt (missing scabbard), also two bullet moulds for differing styles of bullet including explosive types, a melting pot, leather sling, cap tins and other sundry maintenance items with provision for many more
Provenance: Popular tradition has it that this particular rifle was the original design for the Jacob Army Double Rifle and produced with intention of presentation to General Jacob himself, who sadly died before receipt could be made. To our best knowledge, it is the only example known with bar-action as opposed to back action locks, the only example known with this particular inscription on the patchbox and carries a unique ramrod with longitudinal grooves and a faceted tip
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Estimate £8,000-12,000