The 450/400´s....the vintage ones..

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[Dewald]

Posted before. .450cal G. Gibbs. Webley P-HV action. According to the educated the best boxlock action ever made in those days.
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That looks like a Webley screw-grip. Note the dolls head extending into the top lever and the large top lever with the central screw. If you remove the barrels you will see the fastener that resembles a scerw in the action.

They are not at all inferior to the PHV-1, and it is a beautiful rifle. I would go as far as to say more highly finished and more expensive rifles were built on screw-grip actions.

 

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I was lucky enough to handle and shoulder this very rifle. It fit me rather well until I saw the estimate

Ohooo you’re shitting me! Really now I am Seriously, jealous that’s just showing off! Wow!
imo he was quite the duded, just not really the Robert Redford. Always seem to spoil it for the ladies when I tell them he was bald