A Rare 12-Bore D.B. Percussion Carbine Of Jacob's Pattern For A Trooper Of The Sinde Irregular Horse Indistinctly Signed Swinburn & Son, Dated 1857With rebrowned twist sighted barrels numbered '62' on the rib at the breech, long tang grooved for sighting at the top, indistinctly signed and dated back-action locks, figured half-stock (some bruising) stamped '10' over '33' on one side above the replacement patch-box cover, steel mounts including butt-plate stamped 'Sinde Irregular Horse' on the heel tang, and later stirrup ramrod (saddle-bar and ring replaced, worn and rust patinated overall), Birmingham proof marks 51.3 cm. barrelsFootnotesSee Howard L. Blackmore, British Firearms 1659-1859, 1961, pp. 202-204, pl. 67 (2) for another example formerly in the J.F.R. Winsbury Collection; and D.F. Harding, Smallarms of the East India Company 1600-1856, 1997, Vol. II, pp. 523-525
A Rare 12-Bore D.B. Percussion Carbine Of Jacob's Pattern For A Trooper Of The Sinde Irregular Horse Indistinctly Signed Swinburn & Son, Dated 1857With rebrowned twist sighted barrels numbered '62' on the rib at the breech, long tang grooved for sighting at the top, indistinctly signed and dated back-action locks, figured half-stock (some bruising) stamped '10' over '33' on one side above the replacement patch-box cover, steel mounts including butt-plate stamped 'Sinde Irregular Horse' on the heel tang, and later stirrup ramrod (saddle-bar and ring replaced, worn and rust patinated overall), Birmingham proof marks 51.3 cm. barrelsFootnotesSee Howard L. Blackmore, British Firearms 1659-1859, 1961, pp. 202-204, pl. 67 (2) for another example formerly in the J.F.R. Winsbury Collection; and D.F. Harding, Smallarms of the East India Company 1600-1856, 1997, Vol. II, pp. 523-525
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