Product Details
AN INTERESTING .69 FLINTLOCK JAEGER STYLE RIFLE, POSSIBLY RUSSIAN AND MADE AT TULA, CIRCA 1800, no visible serial number,
with 32 1/2in. octagonal barrel with eight groove rifling, having a small blade front-sight and fixed block vee rear-sight, inlaid with silver near the breech 'I M -C-T P', plain lock of rounded form with semi-waterproof pan, roller to frizzen and fitted with a swan-neck cock, gilded brass mounted full walnut stock, carved in relief around rammer channel, tail pipe and trigger-guards, the left-side of the butt with cheek-rest and carved with scroll decoration, scroll trigger-guard
Provenance: The vendor states this rifle was made at Tula and the barrel inscription indicates manufacture at the Imperial Manufactory Tula
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Estimate £800-1,200