Lot Essay
The amount of colour-hardening remaining would indicate that the gun has been relatively little used
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A WESTLEY RICHARDS 1864 PATENT BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMER GUN BY WESTLEY RICHARDS, No. 10414, patent toplever opening action, the bar-in-wood extending to cover the forend-hinge in a crab-joint, the sidelocks with dolphin hammers, best foliate-scroll engraving with some hardening-colour, the stock with butt-plate, damascus barrels
Weight 6lb. 13oz., 14¼in. pull, 30in. barrels, both approx. cyl. (relieved), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof
In a canvas slip
Weight 6lb. 13oz., 14¼in. pull, 30in. barrels, both approx. cyl. (relieved), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof
In a canvas slip