This is a presentation, inscribed .451 caliber Turner's Patent, long range military target rifle.  It has a 36  inch barrel, two barrel bands, 100 percent original stock finish, 99 percent plus barrel and lock finish with a mint bore.  This gun is as close to absolute, new unfired condition as you can possibly get.  It has its original brass tip .451 ramrod and has a removable Jaques Patent sight protector.  The bottom of the barrel bears the 52 bore Birmingham proofs (which is .451 caliber) and is marked T. Turner.  The top of the barrel is marked Turner's Patent.  The lock is marked 1862  with a Crown.  The Sterling silver presentation on the right butt stock is marked 19th Middn R. V., 1862, 1st Prize  1st Class, Won By Captain J. N. Roebuck with 22 points.  Thomas Turner was one of the finest gun makers in England during the 1850's and 1860's.  His guns were dead on competitors with the Whitworth Rifles of the same period.   SOLD!!