Product Details
WESTLEY RICHARDS
A 12-BORE (PINFIRE) 1864 PATENT SINGLE-BITE SNAP-ACTION TOPLEVER BAR-IN-WOOD DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMERGUN, serial no. 11492,
29 7/8in. slightly shortened browned twist sighted reproved black powder only barrels with doll's head extension (patent 2149 of 1858) and signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS 170 NEW BOND ST. LONDON' (signature refreshed) and marked 'PATENT', scroll engraved case-hardened action with blued toplever marked 'WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT', border and scroll engraved locks each signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS', 14 3/4in. figured crab-joint stock with chequered grip and fore-end, blued border and scroll engraved butt-plate and trigger-guard, case-hardened border and scroll engraved trigger-plate, dark horn fore-end cap, and silver escutcheon engraved with the initials 'M.R.C.' (refinished throughout), in fitted brass-cornered leather case lined in red baize, with lift-out tray containing accessories including Hawksley reloading tool, the lid with Westley Richards trade label, the exterior with large oval brass escutcheon.
Estimate £700-900
THE ABOVE LOT IS PURCHASED AS AN EXEMPT ITEM UNDER SECTION 58 (2) OF THE 1968 FIREARMS ACT. TO BE HELD AS A CURIOSITY OR ORNAMENT.