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A Rare 16-Bore Riviere Patent Percussion Target Or Sporting Rifle
By Riviere, Patent Rifle Gun Maker, London, No. 299, Circa 1825

Sporting Guns, Rifles and Vintage Firearms

10 November 2022, 14:00 GMT

London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare 16-Bore Riviere Patent Percussion Target Or Sporting Rifle
By Riviere, Patent Rifle Gun Maker, London, No. 299, Circa 1825

With heavy browned twist two-stage barrel polygonal over most of its length, rifled with three wide grooves and leaf-sighted to 300 yards, octagonal breech signed along the top flat, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened breech (plug replaced), border engraved enclosed action extending down the back of the grip to a hinged peep-sight aperture and engraved with scrolling foliage, plain hammer, figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end, the butt with plain hinged circular patch-box cover on one side and later brass armoury tag stamped 'S.A.S. 1078' on the other, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and including later blued trigger-guard with chequered spur, steel fore-end cap en suite and engraved with a starburst around the ramrod-entry, later sling mounts, and original ramrod with dark horn tip (some rust patination), London proof marks
79.5 cm. barrel

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Provenance
The Infantry and Small Arms School Corps Weapons Collection
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 26 November 2014, lot 511

Isaac 2 Riviere was granted English Patent No. 5175 (for concealed percussion locks) in 1825, however his lock was rejected by the Ordnance in 1834. He joined the H.A.C. in 1821, became a Captain in the Jäger Corps in which he served between 1833 and 1848, and died in 1851

Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns, 26 May 2021, lot 252

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A Rare 16-Bore Riviere Patent Percussion Target Or Sporting RifleBy Riviere, Patent Rifle Gun Maker, London, No. 299, Circa 1825

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