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A PRESENTATION .450 (NO.2 EXPRESS) MARTINI-ACTION SPORTING RIFLE SIGNED S.W. SILVER & CO., LONDON, serial no. 8217 710,
with round, tapering 28in. barrel, the raised and squared top-rib with machine engraved surface and signed in a panel 'S.W. SILVER & CO. 67 CORNHILL LONDON', dove-tailed fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight with two further folding blades, border engraved slab-sided receiver with decorated surrounds to the pins and screws and featuring a large thumbwheel on both action sides for removing barrel, the left side of action marked MARTINI PATENT' with crossed flags above 'B', wing safe, chequered walnut pistol grip butt-stock, the right side inlet with an oval white metal plaque engraved 'PRESENTED BY LORD NORTHWICK TO L.H. CRAKE, HARROW 1886', machine engraved heel-plate, chequered tip to the finger-lever, chequered walnut splinter fore-end and fitted with a vintage leather sling
Provenance: Lawrence Hamilton Crake attended Harrow School from Easter 1882 till Easter 1886. From 1885-6 he was in the Harrow Shooting VIII, becoming Team Captain in 1886. The Spencer Cup, awarded annually for the best shot in the Surrey Rifle Club was won by Crake in 1886 and presented at Bisley by the then Prince of Wales. The Northwick Rifle (changed to The Northwick Cup in 1870), was another annual competition with the prize of a rifle given by the 3rd Lord Northwick. Crake won this in the same year, 1886.
After Harrow, Crake sailed to Quebec, Canada in 1892 and again to Montreal in 1896. By the 1920's he was a shareholder in the Great Western Railway, passing away at Rympton St Mary, Devon in 1942
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Estimate £1,000-1,500
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament