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Historic and Vintage Rigby Rising Bite .470 NE Double Rifle

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I have one more that I think you guys may appreciate:

This is a J Rigby & Co Rising Bite double rifle in .470 NE. It was made in 1905 as a 450 3-1/4" and sold to Col PB Osborne. Later it was sold back to Rigby and then was purchased in 1933 by famed British Explorer and author Sir Wilfred Thesiger ( https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilfred-Thesiger ). In his book the Danakil Diaries, he writes of going to Rigby's and his mother purchasing this rifle for him. I believe it is...

Historic and Vintage Rigby Rising Bite .470 NE Double Rifle

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