AN UNUSUAL .380 (ROOK) BOLT-ACTION CENTRAL HAMMER ROOK & RABBIT RIFLE SIGNED E. BREWSTER & SONS, serial no. 2778, almost certainly Belgian, circa 1885, with round tapering 26in. barrel mostly stripped of finish and fitted with a dove-tailed fore-sight and standing notch rear-sight with additional folding leaf, the top of barrel signed 'E. BREWSTER & SONS, BURY ST. EDMUNDS & NEWMARKET', Birmingham and Liege proofs, unusual octagonal bronze receiver with polished iron bolt with turned down handle, central hammer also locking the bolt in the fired position, walnut straight hand half-stock chequered at the wrist and iron heel-plate and triggerguard. Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament

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