Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2018 : Sale A0618 Lot 618
WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO., LONDON A .300 (SHERWOOD) SINGLE-SHOT TARGET-RIFLE, MODEL THE SHERWOOD, serial no. 4629,

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WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO., LONDON
A .300 (SHERWOOD) SINGLE-SHOT TARGET-RIFLE, MODEL 'THE SHERWOOD', serial no. 4629,
circa 1910, with blued round 27 1/4in. barrel, block fore-sight mount with tunnel bead, standing notch folding rear-sight micro-adjustable ladder marked 'PATENT No. 2735/1900', the top of barrel forwards of rear-sight signed 'WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO., LONDON' and behind the rear-sight near breech marked 'FOR .300 SPECIAL CARTRIDGE' and 'PATENT No. 9711. DETACHABLE BARREL 647', slab sided receiver marked WESTLEY RICHARDS SHERWOOD RIFLE' on the left and 'PATENT REMOVABLE ACTION' on the right, dropping load ramp, chequered walnut butt-stock with iron heel-plate, under-lever cocking, chequered walnut beaver-tail fore-end and strong amount of original finish

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Estimate £700-900

Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament