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Auction archive: Lot number 111

A FINE WESTLEY RICHARDS' PATENT .500 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) SINGLE-BARRELLED 'LONG RANGE LARGE GAME RIFLE' BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 3520, 'For Westley Richards Special 3in. Taper Cartridge', the patent action with matt breech top and offset unde...

Auction 19.07.1995
19 Jul 1995
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,500
ca. US$2,392 - US$3,987
Price realised:
£1,725
ca. US$2,751
Auction archive: Lot number 111

A FINE WESTLEY RICHARDS' PATENT .500 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) SINGLE-BARRELLED 'LONG RANGE LARGE GAME RIFLE' BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 3520, 'For Westley Richards Special 3in. Taper Cartridge', the patent action with matt breech top and offset unde...

Auction 19.07.1995
19 Jul 1995
Estimate
£1,500 - £2,500
ca. US$2,392 - US$3,987
Price realised:
£1,725
ca. US$2,751
Beschreibung:

A FINE WESTLEY RICHARDS' PATENT .500 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) SINGLE-BARRELLED 'LONG RANGE LARGE GAME RIFLE' BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 3520, 'For Westley Richards Special 3in. Taper Cartridge', the patent action with matt breech top and offset underlever with ring finial, side safety lever, best foliate-scroll engraving with much original deep charcoal blued finish, stock with semi-pistolgrip and engraved butt-plate (with trap), bolted forend with horn cap, sling-eyes, the octagonal barrel with matt top, six leaf-sights (the first two engraved '100 & 480 GRS' and '120 & 570 GRS', the block-mounted bead-foresight with fold-away triangular sight Weight 10lb., 15 3/8in. pull, 30¼in. barrel, Black Powder proof

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jul 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A FINE WESTLEY RICHARDS' PATENT .500 (3IN. BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) SINGLE-BARRELLED 'LONG RANGE LARGE GAME RIFLE' BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 3520, 'For Westley Richards Special 3in. Taper Cartridge', the patent action with matt breech top and offset underlever with ring finial, side safety lever, best foliate-scroll engraving with much original deep charcoal blued finish, stock with semi-pistolgrip and engraved butt-plate (with trap), bolted forend with horn cap, sling-eyes, the octagonal barrel with matt top, six leaf-sights (the first two engraved '100 & 480 GRS' and '120 & 570 GRS', the block-mounted bead-foresight with fold-away triangular sight Weight 10lb., 15 3/8in. pull, 30¼in. barrel, Black Powder proof

Auction archive: Lot number 111
Auction:
Datum:
19 Jul 1995
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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