A Fine and Rare Rifled Percussion Carbine

A Fine and Rare .577, 1856 Pattern Percussion Rifled Cavalry Carbine.
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A fine and rare 0.577" 1856 Pattern percussion rifled  cavalry carbine, 37" overall.  21" blued barrel, rifled with three broad, angular grooves, with blade foresight and block and two hinged leaves backsight, the block backsight stamped "1” (for 100 yards), and with a crowned "B52” on the right side, and the two hinged leaves stamped, respectively,  "200” and "300”, for 200 yards and 300 yards, plain tang, stamped with a broad arrow, and  with Tower military view and proof marks, and a crowned "B70” barrel viewer’s mark, stamped at the breech on the left. Rounded, double border line engraved hammer with chequered spur and engraving, flat, double border line engraved lock marked, on the tail, "VR” crowned, and, in front of the cock, "1859 Tower”, and with a crowned broad arrow stamped vertically.  Figured walnut full stock, carved around the rear of the lockplate and sideplate, and stamped with a roundel "Birmingham 1859”, with, in the centre, a crowned broad arrow and "WO” (presumably for "War Office”, and the transitional stamp between "BO” and "WD”), upside down on the right side of the butt, with "B33” (twice), "B12” and "P7” behind the trigger guard tang, and with "W.Scott”, the maker’s name, along the bottom of the butt, between the trigger guard and the butt plate.    Regulation brass mounts, comprising butt plate, trigger guard and forend cap, original sling bar and ring, the sling bar stamped "B12” and "T&CG” (for T&C Gilbert, the Birmingham firm of Thomas and Charles Gilbert which produced a wide range of gun parts), and two screw barrel bands, each stamped "B67” and "J.G”, the front one also stamped "L”, and each with its original "doughnut”.  Swivel ramrod, stamped "J.G(?)” near the tip, "IIII”, a crowned "2”, and "B56” near the point of the rod, the ramrod channel marked "VII” and "IIII”, and the centre of the point of the rod drilled and tapped to receive attachments.  Very good working order and condition, the barrel retaining virtually all of its original blue finish.  


NOTES:

It is not clear exactly how many of these carbines were actually made, but they were manufactured at Enfield, and by the Government’s London and Birmingham contractors.  William Scott was a contractor to the Board of Ordnance from 1847, and traded from 14 Whittall Street, Birmingham, from 1855 to 1858, and from 47 Princip Street, Birmingham, from 1859 to 1868 as W.Scott & Son, from 1869 to 1873 as W.Scott & Sons, and from 1874 to 1875 as W.Scott & Son.


See "British Military Longarms 1715-1865” by Dr. De Witt Bailey, page 125 and plate 44, and  "The British Soldier's Firearm, 1850-1864 From Smooth-bore to Small-bore” by Dr. C.H. Roads, pages 109-110 and 300, 301 and 303.  

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