Fine Modern & Antique Guns - March 2016 : Sale A0316 Lot 512
SPRINGFIELD ARMORY, USA, A .69 PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE, MODEL 1842 RIFLED MUSKET, no visible serial number,
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SPRINGFIELD ARMORY, USA,
A .69 PERCUSSION SINGLE-SHOT RIFLE, MODEL '1842 RIFLED MUSKET', no visible serial number,
dated for 1850 and returned to the factory for later rifling, with in the white iron 42in. barrel, solid rounded top-tang, slab-sided lockplate signed on the tail 'SPRING FIELD 1850', American eagle mark forwards of the hammer, walnut three-quarter stock stamped with a martial cartouche to the left hand cheek, iron furniture, two broad iron barrel-bands and twin-banded nose-cap with integral fore-sight and iron under-barrel ramrod
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Estimate £800-1,200