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After Huvius' stick last week here is my Farquharson [H-I considered your comments a gentle prod in the best taste and interest!]
After some of the superb rifles here I do not wish to push, although the porn one seems to have attracted much attention!

I bought this as a W J Jeffery at a Holts auction in London
Looking at Winfer's books, it is a very early George Gibbs MBL as on page 72
Action patent number 146 puts it at 1874/5 [No. 212 is 1876]
It was used as a target / match rifle as there is a metal plug where the long range sight [for prone, feet to the target] at the rear of the stock as well as the cranked operating lever. Calibre would have been .461 Gibbs

At some time before 1904 it was rebarrelled or rebored by W J Jeffery, the first set of proof marks being 48 bore - .459 [the original Gibbs???] Or is this the original barrel cut down, now 28 inches?

After that again before 1904 [proof marks used between 1855-1904] it was rebored for .500 express, a calibre I particularly like, although I rang Mark Crudgington on the thousand to one chance he had a .461 barrel - no luck!

I do not know whether to be disappointed that it is a mixture or pleased that it is a Gibbs, as almost all the other makers used Belgian actions later

Anyway, it is what it is and it would be nice if it could tell us its history