'P.D. Farqaharson' actions appeared circa 1895 and were supplied by Thomas Turner to a number of other makers including Jeffery, Rigby, Alexander Henry and Thomas Bland. This design is essentially a Farquharson replica and it would appear that actions built to this pattern were manufactured by Auguste Francotte in Belgium and subsequently supplied to the British trade. The marking 'P.D.' almost certainly stands for 'Public Domain' - an indication that, since the expiry of all the Gibbs-Farquharson-Metford patent rights in 1895, the design was free of patent infringement

The lot is subject to V.A.T. as a re-import