Product Details
JOSEPH LANG & SONS
A .500 / 450 (No.1 EXPRESS) BLACK POWDER DOUBLE-BARRELLED ROTARY-UNDERLEVER HAMMER RIFLE, serial no. 4708,
29in. black powder barrels with Henry rifling, file-cut matt rib, ramp-mounted bead fore-sight, rear-sight of one standing and two folding leaves, each with platinum-inlaid centre-lines and calibrated up to 250 yards, the tubes engraved 'JOSEPH LANG & SONS 22. COCKSPUR STREET. PALL MALL. LONDON.' toward the breech-end, spring-assisted Jones type rotary-underlever, carved percussion fences, non-rebounding back-action locks with bolted hammers, fine border and scroll engraving (some discolouration to metalwork), fore-end grip release catch (at fault), 14 1/2in. figured pistolgrip stock including chequered and partially scroll engraved steel buttplate, engraved steel pistolgrip cap
Provenance: We are kindly informed by the makers that this rifle was completed 1872 for a Capt. Williams.
Estimate £1,500-2,000