Lot 76Y,S58
A fine Fraser-patent .360 (Express) take-down falling-block rifle by Danl. Fraser, no. 1526
8 December 2010, 14:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £7,800 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA fine Fraser-patent .360 (Express) take-down falling-block rifle by Danl. Fraser, no. 1526
The action using D. Fraser patent no. 5403 of 23rd December 1880, patent use no. 193, best foliate-scroll engraving, virtually full hardening-colour, chequered trigger and sliding manual safety engraved en suite, well-figured stock (tapped at the hand) with pistolgrip, horn pistolgrip-cap, cheek-piece, recoil-pad and horn butt-plate, detachable horn-capped forend with Deeley & Edge patent forend-catch, the Metford-rifled circular barrel with matt sighting-rib, engraved DanL Fraser & Coy., 4 Leith St. Terrace, Edinburgh, 100 yard fixed-sight with inset ivory triangle and leaf-sights for 150 and 200 yards, ramp-mounted bead-foresight, the breech-end with telescope-sight mount-bases
Weight 5lb. 7¼oz., 14 3/8in. pull (13 1/8in. stock), 26¼in. barrel, London Black Powder proof
Weight 5lb. 7¼oz., 14 3/8in. pull (13 1/8in. stock), 26¼in. barrel, London Black Powder proof
Footnotes
Daniel Fraser & Co. are recorded under this title between circa 1888 and 1911. According to Nigel Brown, British Gunmakers, Volume Two, it is believed that about four hundred of these actions were produced due to observed patent use numbers, and that the majority were made prior to 1902