Product Details
CHARLES MOORE, LONDON
A GOOD 80-BORE PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED PEA-RIFLE, serial no. 1418,
circa 1840, with 30in. browned twist, multi-groove rifled octagonal barrel signed on the top-flat in script '77 ST. JAMES'S STREET, LONDON', colour hardened patent breech with platinum poincon marked 'C. MOORE, LONDON, PATENT' together with a crown, platinum plug, dove-tailed fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight, border and scroll engraved tang, colour hardened bar-action locks with clipped tail and signed 'C. MOORE LONDON', bolted safe behind the engraved hammer, figured walnut half-stock with chequered wrist and raised cheek-piece, border and scroll engraved iron furniture, rectangular white-metal escutcheon engraved with twin crests and oval barrel-key escutcheons, brass-mounted mahogany ramrod (some discolouration and shallow surface corrosion to furniture otherwise a good amount of finish remaining), London proof marks, barrelsmith's mark 'CM' and iron swivels
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Estimate £1,500-2,000