 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
ALEXANDER HENRY 450 3 1/4" BPE - VERY NICE DOUBLE RIFLE - 45% ORIG. CASE COLORS - EXC. BORES - 85% ENGRAVING COVERAGE - VERY NICE WOOD -CLASSIC HENRY
Guns International #: 103611134 Seller's Inventory #: y79
Category: Fine Rifles - Antique Rifles - Cartridge
Seller's Information
When emailing or calling sellers direct, please mention that you saw their listing on GunsInternational.com
Seller: Champlin
Company: Champlin Firearms Inc.
Member Since: 11/19/07
First Name: George
Last Name: Caswell
State: Oklahoma
Zip: 73702
Country: United States
Phone: (580) 237-7388
Platinum Seller
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
5 Plus Days
Payment Types Accepted:
Description:
#1581, Alex'r Henry 12 South St. Andrew St. Edinburgh, Patent No. 904, A Best 450 3 1/4" Black Powder Express Double Rifle with a Jones Action Underlever Bar-Action with Non-Rebounding Hammers, It is with 28 3/4" shoe lump damascus barrels, London proved; Full length rib with 1 standing & 1 folding sights, Non-Rebounding locks, Frontal Hammer safeties that can be used at half-cock, Percussion style fences, Swing lever forend release, Steel engraved trapdoor grip cap, Shadowline cheekpiece, Sling eyes, 14 5/8" LOP over a checkered steel buttplate, 8 lbs. 7 oz., 85% coverage of well-cut period scroll engraving including the hammers, top tang, lever, trigger guard, forend and grip cap, It has 80% barrel browning, 45% original case colors, No pits on the breech face around the striker holes with 100% case colors remaining, The wood is extremely solid in every respect and as stout as day one, The checkering remains at 99%, The wood with very nice color and contrast, The bores and chambers are excellent and remain bright and shiny, The rifling is sharp the entire way from throat to muzzle, All the screws are 98% and in excellent shape and everyone lays north & south, The inside of the forend retains 100% bright and vivid case colors, This very rifle can be shot with a 335 grain cast bullet ahead of about 49 grains of IMR 4198 with about 8 grains of dacron filler. This is a good looking and extremely solid rifle in every respect from metal to wood with excellent bores. This classic double is first rate quality, style, grace, workmanship, handling and Alexander Henry romance from a great period at the pinnacle of sporting guns in the last years of the 19th century. This piece embodies classic Alex Henry from a firm that appreciates all things Edinburgh and Scottish. As my friend Tom Rowe, the author of countless historic British rifles quoted "There was not a better maker of the very highest quality rifle than the Edinburgh firm of Alex Henry, and this firearm proves his point. Elegantly styled and built, these perfectly balanced double barrel rifles handle like a good shotgun. They almost point themselves."
Alexander Henry was born in 1828 and became the inventor of the gun barrel that revolutionized small arms as it was a new principle in rifling a barrel. In the brief on his patent in 1860 it stated "The rifled bore is of polygonal cross-section, and is provided, in addition, with curved, square, or angular spiral projections or grooves, so as to increase the bearing points of the projectile." His barrels became the very part of the Martini-Henry rifle; in 1874 the War Office realized how good his invention was and issued it to the British army. Mr. Henry died in Edinburgh on January 27, 1894 at the age of 76.
Price: $10,600.00
Antique: Yes
Rifle Caliber: .450 Black Powder Express