December 17, 2026 The Estate Of Whitefoord Cole II: Firearms & Militaria
The live portion of this session begins on Thursday, December 17, 2026.
Lot #1236:
(C) RODDA 39 BORE (.500 BP) SELF-COCKING DOUBLE RIFLE
Circa 1870. An innovative, beautiful and elegant vintage double rifle built with 28” brown Damascus fully rifled barrels. Barrels fit with full length wide filed rib with dolls head extension, one standing sight for 150 yards and one folding leaf sight for 250 yards. Front sight is bladed. Bottom rib with eye for sling loop. Right barrel reads “TO H.E. THE VICEROY AND H.R.H THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, LONDON & CALCUTTA.”. Left barrels “R.B. RODDA & CO GUNMAKERS BY APPOINTMENT.” Barrel flats with London proofs and stamped “39”. Bottom of barrels read “25”, “HENRY’S PATENT A&T”, “3553” on right and “3554” on left. Muted case colored hammer action with lovely floral scroll engraving is built with doll's head locking mechanism, non-rebounding hammers are checkered and engraved, long top strap, double triggers front hinged, push-forward spring lever release. Triggers protected by blacked trigger guard which extends to a full length lightly scroll engraved bottom strap over a fine checkered English pistol grip with steel grip cap. Reddish brown walnut stock is fitted with eye for sling loop, oval and a full length steel duck tail buttplate. Splinter forend is fully checkered and built with a slide lever release. CONDITION: Excellent. Barrels retain most of their brown with minor handling marks. Bores are excellent. Action some remaining case colors is sound. Stock is very good with some handling marks and slight evidence of repair at bottom left horn. Forend is very good.