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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

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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

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Westley Richards have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in

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