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xausa
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.470 Westley Richards Drop Lock
      #160859 - 22/05/10 10:12 PM

Somebody is going to be the happy owner of this jewel. I wish it were me. http://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=2553855

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: xausa]
      #160867 - 22/05/10 11:30 PM

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I wish it were me.



That makes two of us.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: EricD]
      #160874 - 23/05/10 04:00 AM

Than we are a group.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: Sville]
      #161173 - 29/05/10 09:46 PM

I couldn't resist.....I have watched it and as the Euro declined....

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161184 - 30/05/10 05:49 AM

Jaz,

Since it is no longer listed, evidently someone used the "Buy It Now" option. Was it you?

If so, congratulations!

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: xausa]
      #161278 - 01/06/10 06:08 PM

I'd like to have seen it, I didn't get the link in time. what did it look like, what was the price guide ?, best, Mike

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: Mike_Bailey]
      #161279 - 01/06/10 06:33 PM

looked very nice - starting price was 24K€ and "buy it now" was 26K€ - if I remember correctly

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: 93mouse]
      #161393 - 03/06/10 11:43 PM

The rifle is a "best". The seller was accomodating and a deal was done outside of the "buy it now".
The detachable lock is one of my all time favorite actions. If I could ever find a MacNaughton skeletal action in a double rifle.....

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161404 - 04/06/10 03:53 AM

Good lord that was inexpensive someone got a tremendous buy.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: ]
      #161478 - 05/06/10 12:12 AM

It made me very happy, thx. The rifle was made in 1910, a very good period.
John

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161632 - 07/06/10 04:27 PM

Congratulations - hope it shoots as well as it looks!

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161640 - 07/06/10 08:12 PM

Where do I apply for my finder's fee: to you, or to the seller?

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: xausa]
      #161647 - 07/06/10 09:30 PM

I began watching this at the beginning of April....you alerted the boys which worried me a bit, and frankly pushed me!!
What's your pleasure??
John

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161650 - 07/06/10 10:11 PM

If someone got that rifle cheap, I can kinda understand why. Unlike the beauty Generalwar has shown us, this one is over the top. I'm sure it cost a mint to make and decorate but the engraving is so deep and Teutonic it reminds me of the joke about the cowboy who had so many notches on his sixgun that it fell to bits.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: Paul]
      #161659 - 08/06/10 02:50 AM

I'm still waiting for some pics, Holts tell me it was rebored to .450, come on Jaz, post some oics, best, Mike

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161660 - 08/06/10 03:09 AM

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What's your pleasure??John



How about publishing a nice set of pictures, now that they are removed from the auction site?

I'm amazed that you could get an accomodation from the seller. I tried once and thought I had, but it turned out to be not the case, as I was informed in no uncertain terms.

He does have some nice stuff, however. I hope to pay him a visit one of these days.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: xausa]
      #161669 - 08/06/10 09:09 AM

Paul,
I believe that you are looking at the rifle which now comes up on the link of the first thread. That is not the rifle. That is a sidelock, the Westley a droplock, boxlock.

As it is in Germany, it will take a bit to get the import license and have it mailed here.
I will certainly post the pictures.
The owner has another detachable lock double rifle, a 30-06 rechambered from a 30-40 Krag. In Germany re-proofing or altering does not detract from the value. I tried to explain this but sometimes one can not accept another's viewpoint. The arbitrage in our two markets does yield some nice pleasures though...:)

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: Paul]
      #161670 - 08/06/10 09:14 AM

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I'm sure it cost a mint to make and decorate but the engraving is so deep and Teutonic it reminds me of the joke about the cowboy who had so many notches on his sixgun that it fell to bits.



I believe you are looking at the sideplate .375 H&H, which now comes up when you click on the link I originally posted. For some reason, after an item is sold by this seller, he substitutes a new, unsold, item in its place.

The .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock we are discussing looks a lot like the one Capt. Curl posts with his submissions, and is definitely not a German engraved sideplate.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161671 - 08/06/10 09:14 AM

xausa,
Before I purchased, I called Westley in Birmingham. The rifle was not re-bored.
I do wonder what happened to the one in Holt's auction? I loved that crocodile case.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161672 - 08/06/10 09:19 AM

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xausa,
Before I purchased, I called Westley in Birmingham. The rifle was not re-bored.




Never said it was. That was Mike, I believe.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: xausa]
      #161673 - 08/06/10 09:30 AM

xausa,
I stand corrected!
John

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161687 - 08/06/10 05:51 PM

Jaz,

Congratulation on a very rare rifle


Mike,

I think you are is confusing the other .450 WR in question on other thread at Holts. http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=160918&an=0&page=0#Post160918

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: DandyofPunjab]
      #161697 - 08/06/10 08:42 PM

John,

I am waiting with anticipation to see photos of your new find, and maybe to see it in person some day. Congratulations.

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: jaz]
      #161699 - 08/06/10 10:01 PM

Sorry Jaz and xausa, yes I was looking at that monstrosity at the top of the thread, and now you mention it it is clearly not a boxlock let alone a droplock. Obviously I was blinded by the sheen of the gold inlays.

- Paul

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Re: .470 Westley Richards Drop Lock [Re: Paul]
      #161724 - 09/06/10 04:19 AM

Actually, it is a boxlock, albeit with side plate to provide more space for the exquisite engraving.
The text refers to it as an Anson (presumably Anson and Deeley) action, and the side plates are devoid of any pins, such as would be visible in a genuine sidelock.

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