£4,900
An extremely rare .62" Sartoris breech loading Volunteer Baker flintlock rifle, c 1820, 45½" overall, barrel 30" including hinge up breech, with bayonet bar at the muzzle, the breech is held closed by an interrupted thread and opened by revolving the barrel by means of a bolt and sliding it forwards; the lock marked with crown over "GR" and "Tower"; walnut fullstock with cheekpiece, regulation pattern brass mounts including large butt trap and additional two barrel bands to facilitate the sliding barrel; with no provision for ramrod or cleaning rod. GWO & C, dark patina to the barrel, signs that an original ramrod groove has been contemporarily filled. Urbanus Sartoris patented his breech in 1817 (British Patent 4,107) £5000-6000
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