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A fine and rare .295/.300 hammerless rook-rifle by Boss & Co., no. 4817 In its leather case image 1
A fine and rare .295/.300 hammerless rook-rifle by Boss & Co., no. 4817 In its leather case image 2
A fine and rare .295/.300 hammerless rook-rifle by Boss & Co., no. 4817 In its leather case image 3
Lot 53S58

A fine and rare .295/.300 hammerless rook-rifle by Boss & Co., no. 4817
In its leather case

4 December 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £5,625 inc. premium

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A fine and rare .295/.300 hammerless rook-rifle by Boss & Co., no. 4817

Toplever, non-selective ejector, foliate-scroll engraving, much hardening-colour, well-figured stock with pistolgrip and engraved colour-hardened steel pistolgrip-cap, horn-capped forend, the octagonal barrel engraved Boss & Co, 73 St. James's St, London, 295 Or 300, matt sighting-flat, open-sights and bead-foresight
Weight 5lb. 9oz., 14½in. stock, 26in. barrel, Birmingham Black Powder proof
In its leather case

Footnotes

Provenance:
Viscount Castlereagh
Please also see Lots 88-89

Literature:
Donald Dallas Boss & Co. Best Gunmakers 2nd Edition p.260
Viscount Castlereagh, Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, ordered two Boss rook rifles nos. 4817 and 4818 in the year 1900. He was born on the 13th May, 1878 joined the Royal Horse Guards and became Lord Londonderry in 1915. He bought this particular gun for his wife Edith and her monogram appears on the gild escutcheon on the butt. The Londondery family were excellent customers of Boss and there are frequent references to them in the Boss's Order Ledgers

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