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OWEN POWELL
A SCARCE .75 NEWARKS PATENT HAMMER RIFLE
28-inch octagonal damascus barrel with folding leaf sights, two-groove rifling, the hinged breech block with border and scroll engraving, bar lock with dummy hammer, half-length stock with steel butt plate, 14-inch pull, ramrod, 7lb. 13oz., black powder proof
Newarks patent, while superficially similar to the Snider action, differs in that a firing pin and striker are internal and the hammer operated only as a cocking lever.
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VAT @ 5% is payable on the hammer price. |
Sold for £800
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| Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns |
| Sotheby's, New Bond Street |
| 20 April 2011 |
| Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply |
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