Ⓦ A .650 CALIBRE PERCUSSION BEST QUALITY DOUBLE RIFLE BY ALEXANDER HENRY

Ⓦ A .650 CALIBRE PERCUSSION BEST QUALITY DOUBLE RIFLE BY ALEXANDER HENRY, 12 SOUTH ST. ANDREW ST, EDINBURGH, PATENT NO. 1110, NO. 1024, CIRCA 1863

with browned twist sighted barrels signed in full on the rib, matted over the remaining part of its surface and rifled with seven grooves, fitted with folding back-sight calibrated to 200 yards, numbered and struck with proof marks beneath, scroll-engraved case-hardened breeches with engraved platinum plugs, scroll-engraved grooved breech tang, finely scroll-and border-engraved locks signed on scrolls and fitted with shaped hammers engraved en suite and blued bolt safety-catches, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered fore-end and pistol grip, the latter with scroll-engraved case-hardened steel cap with trap for percussion caps, scroll-engraved steel mounts en suite with the locks, including trigger-guard, trigger-plate with slender terminal, butt-plate, patchbox-cover, barrel bolt escutcheons and fore-end-cap, vacant gilt shield-shaped escutcheon, and original brass-tipped wooden ramrod, and much original finish throughout

71.2 cm; 28 in barrels

Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)

Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection

See Dallas 2017, p. 250 and 258.