9th Dec, 2011 9:00 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
Lot 450
 

450

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Presentation Rifle by J Aston, Hythe, the 82cm browned steel...

A 19th Century Percussion Cap Presentation Rifle by J Aston, Hythe, the 82cm browned steel barrel with hinged ladder rear sight and ramped foresight, with signed lock plate, well figured walnut stock with crisply chequered grip and fore-end, steel double scroll trigger guard and ramrod pipes, the shouldered butt with hinged cap box and set with a nickel silver shield engraved "Prize Rifle Won at HYTHE by R.J.Tinley as best Shot of the Right Wing. August 6:1859", with steel ramrod. Together with three photocopied pages from the book "The School of Musketry at Hythe", by W S Miller, London 1892

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £800 - £1,000


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 9th Dec, 2011

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