Roberts_Double_Rifle_2

English Double Rifle. From the auction web site: “Late Victorian English Double Rifle, by E. Roberts, Birmingham, .450-3-1/4 black powder Express cal., 26” matte game rib blue barrels, with three-leaf Express sights having platina bands (leafs are calibrated 200 and 500), case hardened frame, hammers, back lock, triggerguard and underlever; steel case hardened buttplate cap and two-piece skeletal buttplate all show light border engraving, as does frame and lock; small gold inlaid Roberts’ logo impressed between hammers; Birmingham proof at watertable and to bottom of barrels. Fine European pistol-grip checkered walnut stock and splinter forend with Anson style push-button release.”

Photograph from Carol Watson’s Orange Coast Auctions.

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