Product Details
JOHN DICKSON & SON, EDINBURGH
A 70-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED 'PEA' RIFLE, serial no. 2919,
for 1869, with octagonal 28in. damascus barrel, later blued-over finish now fading, matted top-flat with elongated bead fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight with two additional folding leaves, both with platinum centre-lines, the left and right hand top-flats signed 'JOHN DICKSON & SON' and '63 PRINCES STREET EDINBURGH' respectively, scroll engraved patent breech with engraved platinum vent, fully border and scroll engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved bar-action lock signed 'JOHN DICKSON & SON', engraved dolphin-headed hammer with bolted safe, chequered figured walnut half-stock with scroll engraved iron patchbox of small size, chequered iron heel-plate and spurred lower tang, plain trigger with chequered blade, flush-fitting barrel key and brass tipped ebony ramrod
Provenance: This rifle was made for an A.H McKenzie for the Ord House Hotel gunroom and completed on the 4th August 1869.
It appears to be described as a pinfire breech-loader in the record books
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Estimate £1,800-2,200