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Beautiful Cased William Evans Double Rifle in .375 H&H Flanged Magnum
Guns International #: 103485512 Seller's Inventory #: 52506
Category: Double Rifles - English - Rifles - African Dangerous Game Safari Magazine
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1307
Total Number of Listings: 26204
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $500! We also have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material. We offer free Shipping for orders over $500.
Description:
Serial #15664, .375 H&H Flanged Magnum, 26" barrels with excellent, bright bores. This is a 1928-made rifle that has 92-95% of the original blue remaining on the barrels, with mild silvering at the muzzles, as well as some very minor scratches and gray fading along the sides of the barrels towards the breeches. The barrels have a grooved quarter rib with two-leaf express rear sight, and a sporting bead front sight with auxiliary flip-up white bead for better visibility (the front sight block is milled for a no longer present sheet metal hood). The boxlock frame has full British scroll engraving with 90-92% of the original bright color case-hardening remaining throughout, faded slightly to gray along the edges at the carry point. The floor plate and trigger guard retain most of their original blue, although there are streaks of gray along the trigger guard tang. The checkered English walnut forend and buttstock have attractive feathered grain, and are in fine shape with minor scratches and handling marks scattered about, but no cracks or chips, and only some minor flattening of the checkering points. The stock has a slight cast for a right-handed shooter, and features a rounded cheek-piece with raised and stepped border. The LOP measures 13 7/8" to a new red rubber recoil pad with drops of 1 1/2" and 2 3/8" respectively. The silver escutcheon on the belly is engraved "OCB" (this was done later by a subsequent owner). The lock-up is tight and the action works flawlessly, with smartly functioning ejectors. The rifle is housed in the original canvas and leather trimmed traveling case with original owner’s initials on the lid: "J.M.D." The interior has a green baize-lining with seven compartments. The original William Evans maker’s label and cleaning instruction decal are still present on the inside of the lid, and the rifle is accompanied by: segmented wooden cleaning rod, wallet of rod tips and pull-through, horn-handled turn-screw, roll of gauze, period sachet of desiccant, a conical tin bottle of William Evans "Special Cleaning Fluid" with partially legible paper label, and a trapezoidal japanned tin whose paper label, while intact, is no longer legible. Additionally, the rifle comes with 50 rds. of modern ammunition: 40 rds. loaded with 300 gr. Barnes solids by Nyati Inc., and 10 rds. of older cartridges loaded with soft point bullets by Anthony F. Sailer. Some of these rounds are "Half recoil". Also included are copies from William Evans’ ledgers showing that the rifle was sold to a "Capt. J.M. Doddington" (the inclusion of the initials "JMD" on the case lid is specified in the cost sheet.) While we can find no British officer by that exact name, there was a Lt. Col. James Marriott Dodington, the son of Lt. Col. Roger Marriott Dodington OBE, born on July 23, 1897. James Dodington was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Wiltshire Regiment during WW1 and rose through the ranks, ending the war as a Captain. He retired as a Lt. Colonel, like his father, in 1920, and passed away on January 7, 1992 at the ripe old age of 94. This is a splendid nitro express double rifle, by a famous British maker, and in excellent overall condition. FFL or C&R;
Price: $40,595.00