CHARLES LANCASTER UNDERLEVER OVAL BORE HAMMER DOUBLE RIFLE. SN 5904. Cal. 500/450. Beautiful rifle with 28” steel bbls with flat tapered hand matted rib, gold bead caterpillar front sight, fixed rear sight, doll’s head rib extension with dbl underbites. It has maker’s name & address on top of left bbl and “NON-FOULING SMOOTH OVAL BORE RIFLING” on rifle bbl. It has a delicate round action with side swinging underlever, back action locks with unusual offset rabbit ear hammers with stalking safeties. Receiver, lockplates & hammers are very beautifully engraved with about 80% coverage fine foliate arabesque patterns. Appended metal is engraved to match. Both sides of receiver are marked “CHARLES LANCASTER PATENT” and both lockplates have maker’s name and “LONDON PATENT” in two ribbons. Lower tang is very nicely checkered. Mounted with tiger stripe English walnut with a dainty checkered splinter forearm & light, rnd knob pistol grip stock with cheekpiece, 14-1/2” over a checkered & engraved steel buttplate. Weight: 8lbs, 8.9 oz. PROVENANCE: Glenn Marsh Collection. CONDITION: Very fine. Bbls retain about 95% strong orig blue with a few scattered minor dings and a cleaned spot on bottom of right bbl. Receiver retains 85-90% orig case colors, strong & bright in sheltered areas, more so on right side. Lockplates retain most of their orig case colors, stronger in sheltered, turning silver toward back ends. Wood is sound with minor handling & storage nicks and retains most of a fine professionally restored finish. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bores. 4-59608 JR304 (5,000-8,000)
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