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ALEX'R HENRY, EDINBURGH
A FINE CASED BEST QUALITY .451 PERCUSSION MATCH RIFLE, serial no. 1059,
circa 1860-65, with blued slightly tapering 35in. barrel marked 'ALEX'R HENRY 12 SOUTH ST. ANDREWS ST EDINBURGH, PATENT No. 709, GAUGE 451', adjustable globe fore-sight, micro-adjustable patent elevating rear-sight, octagonal scroll engraved colour hardened breech-block, the octagonal flats extending onto the barrel for 1 5/8in., fully scroll engraved top-tang fitted with a vernier folding aperture sight, scroll engraved nipple-boss with engraved platinum plug, fully border and scroll engraved colour hardened lock signed in a banner on the bar 'ALEX'R HENRY', scroll engraved dolphin-headed hammer with bolted safe to fore, highly figured chequered walnut pistol-grip half-stock (blind hairline crack running back from rear of lock), circular iron patchbox engraved with a stag and with fully scroll engraved hinge, iron heel-plate with short scroll engraved spur and engraved borders to the screws, scroll engraved iron grip-cap with central trapdoor, engraved iron trigger-guard bow and finial, moulded horn fore-end tip and complete with a slightly later period pine unlined transit case, leather cross-straps and flush fitting hook and lock closure externally (leather handle partially detached), the interior compartmented (some removed) and containing a period tin for Curtis's & Harvey's powder, a tin for Kynoch's caps, a wood bun-ended ramrod, a later bullet mould and the original parchment trade-label from inside the lid, now detached, the inside of lid pencilled 'CWK 20th MARCH 1892'
Provenance: The publication, Alexander Henry, Rifle Maker by Donald Dallas lists this rifle 1059 as a Best Single Rifle with patent use number 709 and fitted with globe sights
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Estimate £5,000-7,000