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Two triggers good

I return this month to my favourite subject of Victorian inventiveness.

I recently discovered this peculiar double pistol-gripped match rifle while doing valuations in South Africa. It was made by Edinburgh gunmaker Alexander Henry and I had never seen it’s like before. But Donald Dallas, my good friend and author who is expert on all things Henry, soon shed some light on the quirky — and as it turned

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