A Fine T. Turner Snider

A Fine .577 Snider Three-Band Service Rifle Musket by T. Turner, Birmingham, No. 3484.
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A Fine .577 Snider Three-Band Service Rifle Musket by T. Turner, Birmingham, No. 3484. With blued sighted barrel rifled with three grooves and retained by three barrel bands, calibrated folding adjustable back-sight, pivoting case-hardened breech block, chained nipple-protector, signed case-hardened flat lock with Thomas Turner mark on the stock, figured three-quarter stock, regulation brass mounts, sling loops, original steel ramrod and retaining some original finish. Birmingham proof marks. 


TURNER, Thomas [1861-1879]

Shop at 8 Fisher Street, Birmingham. Made percussion sporting guns. Under Royal Government contract made Army metallic cartridge rifles, Snider Patent. 


A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. 


Dimensions:

Bore: .577 Calibre

Barrel Length: 39 Inches (99 cm)

Overall Length: 55.5 Inches (141 cm)

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