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The following four lots comprize a set of four double-barrelled rifles, three of which are consecutively numbered. Rifles No. 7340/1/2 were completed circa 1903 and rifle No. 7260 was completed the previous year
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The following four lots comprize a set of four double-barrelled rifles, three of which are consecutively numbered. Rifles No. 7340/1/2 were completed circa 1903 and rifle No. 7260 was completed the previous year
A .450 (No. 2 3½IN. NITRO EXPRESS) D.B. HAMMERLESS 'A GRADE' SIDELOCK EJECTOR RIFLE BY A. HENRY, No. 7341, automatic safe, ribanded fences, best engraving of vines and their fruit on a matt ground, with much hardening-colour, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, cheekpiece, extension and recoil-pad, sling-eyes, the Krupp-steel chopper-lump barrels with open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight
Weight 9lb. 7½oz., 14¾in. pull, 26in. barrels, nitro proof
Alexander Henry records confirm that the rifle was built for the .450 (No. 2) cartridge firing a 480 grain soft nose bullet with 80 grains of cordite. The rifle appears to have been very little used
A .450 (No. 2 3½IN. NITRO EXPRESS) D.B. HAMMERLESS 'A GRADE' SIDELOCK EJECTOR RIFLE BY A. HENRY, No. 7341, automatic safe, ribanded fences, best engraving of vines and their fruit on a matt ground, with much hardening-colour, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, cheekpiece, extension and recoil-pad, sling-eyes, the Krupp-steel chopper-lump barrels with open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight
Weight 9lb. 7½oz., 14¾in. pull, 26in. barrels, nitro proof
Alexander Henry records confirm that the rifle was built for the .450 (No. 2) cartridge firing a 480 grain soft nose bullet with 80 grains of cordite. The rifle appears to have been very little used