拍品专文
The pin-fire system remains an important but brief part of the development of the sporting breech-loader and pin-fire rifles are amongst the scarcest of variants encountered
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A RARE 12-BORE (PINFIRE) 'LOCKFAST' DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER RIFLE
BY J.D. DOUGALL, NO. 2420
Patent slide-and-tilt sidelever action, the backlocks with bolted dolphin hammers and an additional bolted safety for the sidelever, carved serpentine fences, best engraving of scenes of deer amid bold foliate-scrolls, the top-strap engraved with the head of a grotesque, chequered bottom-strap, well-figured stock with pistolgrip and engraved and chequered iron butt-plate, sling-eyes, the rebrowned damascus barrels with matt sight-rib and ornately-carved leaf-sights
Weight 10lb., 14¾in. pull, 26in. barrels, Black Powder proof
BY J.D. DOUGALL, NO. 2420
Patent slide-and-tilt sidelever action, the backlocks with bolted dolphin hammers and an additional bolted safety for the sidelever, carved serpentine fences, best engraving of scenes of deer amid bold foliate-scrolls, the top-strap engraved with the head of a grotesque, chequered bottom-strap, well-figured stock with pistolgrip and engraved and chequered iron butt-plate, sling-eyes, the rebrowned damascus barrels with matt sight-rib and ornately-carved leaf-sights
Weight 10lb., 14¾in. pull, 26in. barrels, Black Powder proof