A .577" Volunteer Snider 3 band rifle by Reilly, 55" overall...

Hammer

£700

A .577" Volunteer Snider 3 band rifle by Reilly, 55" overall, barrel 36½" with London proofs and Enfield inspector's mark, the breech block having "Snider Patent" mark; lock bearing crowned "VR" and "1865" over "L.A. Co" and engraved "E.M. Reilly & Co, New Oxford St, London"; walnut fullstock with brass mounts, trigger guard with eyelet securing chain and nipple protector, and numbered 10,021; with single sling swivel, original steel ramrod, muzzle plug, German silver rearsight cover stamped "Snider", and with registration mark, and triangular socket bayonet (no scabbard), Good Working Order and Condition, the barrel retaining much original blued finish (bayonet socket lightly pitted). Accompanying this lot is a "Firearms Form 7" exempting it from requiring to be sold on a firearms certificate as it is classed as a "trophy", dated March 1922. Plate 33