NEW LOT ADDED Published: 7 Mar 2025
Fine Modern & Antique Arms - March 2025 : Sale A0325 Lot 738
A RARE 10.66mm (.42 BERDAN) EXPERIMENTAL BERDAN MODEL 1867 BREECH-LOADING RIFLE, serial no. 1,

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A RARE 10.66mm (.42 BERDAN) EXPERIMENTAL BERDAN MODEL 1867 BREECH-LOADING RIFLE, serial no. 1,
circa 1867, with reblued 32 1/2in. barrel (some shallow pitting below finish), block and dove-tailed blade fore-sight, elevating ladder rear-sight on a sprung base serving to lock the lift-up brushed bright breech (serial numbered '1' to the underside), inline cocking piece to rear, walnut full-stock (cracked through at hand and repaired), iron furniture and under-barrel clearing rod, bayonet lug at muzzle, together with notes on the rifle an a proof exemption certificate dated 1983




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Estimate £400-600

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament