Product Details
B.S.A.
A .303 'LEE-SPEED' BOLT-MAGAZINE SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. 18626,
25 1/4in. nitro reproved barrel (in 2015) etched 'Proved & Sighted for the Mark VII .303 High Velocity Cartridge', open sights with two folding leaf sights with white metal inlaid sight lines and marked for 100, 200 and 300 yards and folding iron sights marked to 1000 yards, block-mounted bead fore-sight, knoxform with the B.S.A. piled arms trademark, no dust cover, cocking-piece safety, missing magazine cutoff, butt socket marked 'BSA.Co', 14 1/2in. well-figured semi-pistolgrip stock with sling eyes and BSA trademarked buttplate
Provenance: This, and the following Lot were built for Sir Bernard Docker, then Chairman of B.S.A., for the armoury aboard his classic gentleman's yacht, M.Y. Shemara.
Docker was born in Edgebaston August 1896 to the industrialist, Dudley Docker (one of the main benefactors to Sir Earnest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition). Bernard Docker was a shrewd businessman and held several senior directorships through his career, but is best-remembered as Chairman of the Daimler Motor Co. and of Birmingham Small Arms, B.S.A.
Thornycroft were awarded the commission to build a yacht (to Docker's specification) and M.Y. Shemara was completed and launched in 1938. She was a large classic gentleman's yacht of the type that came directly after the 'plank-on-edge' design. She was requisitioned by the Navy during the last war as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare before being returned to her owner (requiring a refit) at the end of hostilities.
Sir Bernard suffered ill-fortune in the decades after the war and Shemara was acquired by the vendor who is now offering these rifles at auction
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Estimate £300-400
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