Product Details
AN UNUSUAL .577/450 WESTLEY RICHARDS MARTINI-HENRY SIGNED FICHARDT, serial number 9236 1870s, with 32 1/2 in. sighted barrel marked 'WESTLEY RICHARDS & Co LONDON' and 'GEMAAKT VOOR G.A. FICHARDT & Co BLOEMFONTEIN', plus Birmingham proof-marks, falling block action, receiver marked with serial number and undated Westley Richards triangle but otherwise blank, sporterised in the Boer fashion with reduced forend and filled clearing rod channel, with crude shallow engraving 'J N Smuts', left side of butt crudely engraved 'PJIDEB' with 'PJID' over, barrel with some heavy knocks and reblued with blinded pitting under, stock with knocks and loss to the right forend where meets the barrel, 49 in. overall
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Estimate £300-500
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament