Westley Richards: a fine .450/.483 'Monkey Tail' capping breech-loading sporting rifle, serial

Westley Richards: a fine .450/.483 'Monkey Tail' capping breech-loading sporting rifle, serial number 4471, octagonal barrel 26.25 in., marked 'WHITWORTH PATENT', bead fore sight dovetailed into a raised block, 'Cape' type back sight combining eight folding leaves with a ladder giving numerous graduations from 100 to 1,500 yards between them, Birmingham proof, breech marked '70 GRAINS', lifting 'tail' scroll engraved and with 'MANUFACTURED BY WESTLEY RICHARDS', bolted and detented lock, set trigger, lock plate and hammer with fine border and scroll engraving, the plate inscribed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS & Co' and dated 1871 within a trademark triangle, chequered walnut half stock with horn nose cap, fine scroll engraving to the trigger guard and to the hinge plate of the patch box cover, brass tipped wooden ram rod. Section 58(2) - no licence required if possessed as a curiosity or ornament.

The George Geear Collection