£3,800
A breech-loading military wall (rampart) gun, P J Malherbe Liege, for the Russian imperial government, c1837, the 126cm cal. 20mm rifled barrel with brass sight, folding pivot pin, lidded chamber, lockplate stamped P J MALHERBE A LIEG* 1837, brass fittings and walnut stock
Provenance: By descent in the Harcourt-Vernon family of Grove Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire (demolished 1952) until acquired privately by the present vendor in 1953.
A similar example by Malherbe also dated 1837 and captured during the Crimean War at the siege of the Bomarsund Fortress at its surrender in 1854, is in the collection of the Royal Armories (Object No XII. 4623)
Steel slightly pitted, apparently lacking back sight
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