Product Details
GEORGE GIBBS
A FINE .360 (NO.2) 3IN. NITRO EXPRESS BOXLOCK EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE, serial no. 19478,
26in. nitro chopperlump barrels, matt sight rib with open sights and two folding leaf sights, white metal inlaid sight lines and marked for 100, 200 and 300 yards, ramp-mounted bead fore-sight with flip-up moonsight, tubes engraved 'GEORGE GIBBS. 39. CORN STREET. BRISTOL' ".360/NO.2 NITRO" and " 55 GRS. CORDITE, & 320 GRAIN. BULLET", treble-grip action with removable striker discs, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, intercepting sears, articulated front trigger, profusely engraved with fine acanthus scrollwork, retaining slight traces of original colour-hardening, 14 3/4in. figured pistolgrip stock with steel pistolgrip-cap, sling eyes, bolstered fore-end with grip-catch release lever, weight 8lb. 12oz., in its brass-cornered oak-lined leather case with some accessories and a leather pouch with spare sights, strikers and mainsprings, the lid exterior marked J. N. PRICE WOOD. 12TH LANCERS'
Provenance: The rifle would have been completed circa 1904.
Lieutenant John Nicholas Price Wood, born 1877 at Wirksworth, Derbyshire served with the 12th Royal Lancers in the Boer War and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittenbergen and Relief of Kimberley clasps.
He survived the war and is recorded as being welcomed home in 1902, alongside other returning Boer War soldiers by Mrs Meade-Waldo of Wirksworth Hall (the Meade-Waldo family also owned Hever Castle in Kent at this period) and being presented with a solid silver cup, bought by public conscription.
The Wood family had once owned Wirksworth Hall (which was sadly demolished in 1920 due to subsidence) but had moved to Henley Hall, where in 1962 John Price Wood passed away at the age of 85 holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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Estimate £3,000-5,000
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