When a single-barrelled Lancaster rifle just isn’t enough
Royal Armouries
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15m
What’s better than a single-barrelled Lancaster rifle? A four-barrelled one, obviously. Well, at least His Highness Maharana Shree Wakhatsingji must have thought so because that’s exactly what he got with this hefty four-barrelled sporting rifle.
Made by Charles Lancaster’s successor Henry Thorne in 1885, it features Lancaster’s oval bore design and takes its place as an important part of Indian and British colonial history.
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