Product Details
GEORGE GIBBS, BRISTOL
A FINE, SCARCE DELUXE .400 (EXPRESS) FARQUHARSON'S PATENT FALLING BLOCK RIFLE, frame no 221,
circa 1885, with 28in round barrel inscribed 'METFORD 1821' and signed 'GEORGE GIBBS, 39 CORN STREET, BRISTOL' with bead and block foresight and triple folding leaf express rearsight calibrated to 200yds, colour hardened action profusely covered with fine rose and scroll engraving, signed by the maker on the left hand side and marked 'FARQUHARSON'S PATENT 221' on the right together with a lever and bolted safety catch, with the word 'BOLTED' in gold, elevating folding peep-sight on the top-tang, highly figured walnut chequered stock and forend (inlet repair to comb, armoury identification plate to side of butt at heel), horn pistol-grip cap, gold escutcheon with engraved armourial device to underside of stock, small silver shield escutcheon engraved with the number '2' forwards of the heel and horn heel-plate. We are kindly informed by the makers that this rifle was completed in 1880.
Estimate £3,000-4,000