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