Lot 371
A 12-BORE SIDELOCK HAMMER GUN BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, NO. 10561
31 March 2004, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £235 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 12-BORE SIDELOCK HAMMER GUN BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, NO. 10561
The action incorporating the 1859 model of Westley Richards pull-back thumb-lever patent No. 2149 of 24th. September 1858, the stock and furniture cast-off towards central vision, rebounding sidelocks, foliate-scroll engraving, well-figured stock (repaired at the head), with recoil-pad, the bar-in-wood enclosing the forend hinge in a crab-joint, the browned bold damascus barrels with broad tapering game-rib
Weight 7lb. ½oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, both approx. cyl. (relieved), 2½in. chambers, Black Powder reproof
Weight 7lb. ½oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, both approx. cyl. (relieved), 2½in. chambers, Black Powder reproof
Footnotes
The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1865