32 - 3/8" swamped octagonal barrel made of stub Damascus, with a dovetailed bead front sight with engraved fine-adjust positions, dovetailed ladder sight with a fixed blade and a folding ladder with sliding elevator, and a three leaf express sight, all folding, with 2 leaves marked for 100 and 200 meters, one unmarked. Top engraved: "Parker Field & Sons, Rifle Makers 25 High Holborn London". One piece horn tipped ramrod retained by 2 ferrules before feeding into a reinforced mount. Tang is engraved in English style scrollwork with dressed screws and a fan motif at flat when barrel begins, with a slot for a tang sight, vacant. Percussion lock of good quality depicting a bounding stag, with English scroll and border work, signed "Parker Field & Sons", and fit with a nicely detailed fishform hammer with engraving on cock en suite, and fit with an English stalking safety. Even the barrel key, escutcheon, and muzzle are engraved en suite. Double set triggers protected by a trigger guard with a fierce lion and a spearpoint finial, with a checkered finger rest at rear. Stock of a nicely fiddled and grained walnut is checkered about the forearm and the wrist in point pattern, and fit with a sling stud on toe line (corresponding stud appears to have been removed from ramrod rib), shadowline cheekpiece, and a blank vanity plate. Patchbox with elaborate engraving of a leopard eating an antelope on the Sahara, with supporting scrollwork en suite. Buttplate with long spearpoint finial engraved with a stag at heel and dressed at the borders. CONDITION: Very good, and appears to have been little molested. Barrel with approximately 30% browning remaining, with most losses ahead of ladder sight, and with some scattered areas of handling marks and spotted oxidation. Engraving crisp and legible. Stocks are very good with some handling marks ad impressions, with one chip missing under rear of lock. Checkering with some impressions and abraded heads. Some fire bluing still visible, mostly on sights, with traces of case colors in protected areas. Mechanically fine, bore is excellent with strong rifling. A lovely example. With a brass collection tag labelled "0771". Barrel Length: 32 - 3/8" Caliber/Bore: .577 Rifled FFL Status: Antique Manufacturer: Parker Field & Sons Model: Percussion Rifle Paperwork: Tag Serial Number: NSN