Thank you
@Red Leg , current caretaker is quite appropriate as the story behind it is a sad one.
The previous owner, who commissioned the rifle in 2003, a Mr. Stocco, was a close and personal friend of the gun smith who sold the rifle to me on commission from the previous owners wife. The gun smith, Mr Richard, who used to be a PH, became all emotional about this rifle, had to pick it up several times again, “to give it one last look”.
Mr Stocco, was quite the arms and hunting enthusiast, and one day had a stuck cartridge in his barrel or action (not this rifle I believe). He took the rifle home and put it in his vice to start working on it while his wife upstairs was cooking dinner. He had been working on it for quite some time, to dislodge the cartridge, and his wife came down to tell him that the soup was ready. She went back upstairs and then heard a gun go off. Apparently, while working on it, and perhaps having the pressure of “the soup is ready” Mr. Stocco used more drastic means, a hammer or so, to get the stuck cartridge out, igniting it. He did not survive and his wife found him downstairs.
She didn’t want anything to do with his guns anymore, and instructed his close friend, Mr. Richard, to sell the collection. Apart from one or two pieces that Mr. Richard would be keeping for himself, as a memory, this .416 Rigby was the last piece in need to find a new home.
Mr Richard was at times a bit overcome when talking about this rifle and the previous owner, and while he was speaking to Mr Vereecke on the phone to get some additional information I wanted, he was happy to let Mr Vereecke know that the rifle would be going to a passionate amateur of fine rifles.
I think the next step would be to take it back to Africa, on a hunt together with Mr. Richard. I believe he would appreciate that.
...I must be behaving 
