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Pre-WW1 Charles Lancaster .280 Flanged Nitro Express


~ THIS RIFLE HAS BEEN SOLD ~


Open the case and take a look.

Resting safely after 90+ years.

This is the outstanding Webley PHV-1 long bar screw grip action.

Notice how the action is sculpted along the bars and the bottom. This is quite unusual on a Webley actioned boxlock. It makes the rifle trim and racy. Quite appropriate for this caliber.

The action is fitted with side clips - another unusual feature on the Webleys, and a nice touch.

The rifle retains virtually all its original vivid color case hardening. The screws are unmolested and retain all their original fire blue. The barrels still wear their original black finish, never having been subjected to the indignity of refinishing.

CHARLES LANCASTER 11 PANTON ST. HAYMARKET, LONDON.

NON-FOULING SMOOTH OVAL BORE RIFLING.

This rifle is prominently displayed in a full-page photograph appearing in Don Masters' work, ATKIN, GRANT & LANG, Safari Press, 2005.

The caption reads, "A .280 hammerless "B" grade, body action (boxlock), nonfouling, smooth oval bore, double-barrel nonejector rifle, No. 013487, built for Lord Charles Fitzmaurice in 1912 by Charles Lancaster & Co. The rifle is fitted with 26-inch chopper lump barrels with matte sight rib, and open sights. (Courtesy of Christie's Images Limited 2003)"

History tells us that Lord Charles Fitzmaurice (Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice), was the third child of Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, War Secretary during the Second Boer War.

Lord Charles Fitzmaurice was a confidant to King George V and accompanied the royal party to India in 1911. He was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres on October 30, 1914. Perhaps that tragic death explains how this rifle has been handed down through the decades in its remarkable high condition.

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