C1900 English E & G Higham Ranelagh Street Liverpool .300 Centre Fire Obsolete Calibre Breech Loading Side Lever Break Action Single Shot Rook Rifle. Sn 23872 rook rifle Single Shot Obsolete Rifle

C1900 English E & G Higham Ranelagh Street Liverpool .300 Centre Fire Obsolete Calibre Breech Loading Side Lever Break Action Single Shot Rook Rifle. Sn 23872 - 23872

E & G Higham of Ranelagh Street was a respected family-run English gunmaking business founded in Liverpool in 1795 by Edward and George Higham. They operated across the North West of England and the Welsh Marches for over a century before the Liverpool branch was absorbed by W.C. Carswell between 1917 and 1920. This rook rifle by E&G Higham has a blued 26” Octagonal rifled barrel. The bore is clean with well defined rifling. The trigger guard tang is numbered 4319. It has an external hammer, blade foresight, and 3 tier rear sight with silvered aiming lines. Two barrel flats are signed ‘E & G Higham’ & the other ‘Ranelagh Street Liverpool’. The rifle has all original undamaged walnut stock with chequered panel pistol grip and chequered fore end with polished horn fore end cap. It has an undamaged chequered polished horn butt plate and polished horn pistol grip cap. The loading and firing actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre Rook rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23872

£995.00