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#LINCOLN JEFFRIES AIR RIFLE PRICES PLUS#
Lots purchased online with will attract an additional charge for this service in the sum of 3% of the hammer price plus VAT at the rate imposedĩ. The purchase price will be the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium of 22% plus VAT at the current rate PLUS any online bidding surcharges.
Estimates do not include buyer’s premium or VAT where applicable and may be subject to change up until the auction.Ĩ. Estimates are given as a reference only and the reserve will not be above the lower estimate.ħ. The Auctioneer acts as an agent for the seller therefore your primary contact is with the seller.Ħ.
The auctioneer reserves the right to refuse entry to our office or auction venue any member of the public.ĥ. By agreeing to bid you also agree to comply with all laws that pertain to the ownership of antique guns and obsolete calibre guns in this country.Ĥ. Any politically related items are sold purely as items of historical interest and the company does not hold with or approve of any political motivations represented by any of the said items of historical interest.ģ. The following lots in this catalogue are sold as ornaments, curiosities and items of historical interest only. All auctions are conducted under our printed conditions of sale which are available on request.Ģ. Marksman Airgun Pellets continue to be manufactured at the Lincoln Jeffries factory located in Summer Lane, supplying customers both in the United Kingdom, and all around the world.PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LIVE INTERNET AND INTERNET COMMISSION BIDDING ONLY AUCTION, NO BIDDING IN PERSON.ġ. Production of the Marksman pointed pellets began in 1983 with the. By the 1970’s, production figures of 25 million pellets a week were required such was the popularity of the Marksman brand of air rifle pellets in their distinctive red, white and blue boxes of 100’s, 200’s and 500’s, and tins of 500. Throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, Marksman air rifle pellets were being sold not only in the United Kingdom, but all around the world with huge quantities being distributed to Canada, Australia and South Africa. 25 from their premises in Whittall Street and Steelhouse Lane, located in the heart of Birmingham until 1960, where due to the redevelopment of the city were forced to relocate to a new factory in Summer Lane. Len and Arthur Jeffries continued to produce air rifle pellets in calibres. Alongside these brands they also started producing a smooth sided air rifle slug, packaged under the name ‘Target’. After the retirement of George Lincoln Jeffries in 1912, air rifle pellets continued to be made by his sons, however it was not until the 1930’s that two of his grandsons, Lincoln ‘Len’ and Arthur Jeffries began to produce air rifle pellets under the brand names ‘British Marksman’, later becoming known as ‘Marksman’. The name ‘Bisley’ refers to the Bisley Rifle meeting of 1905, where His Majesty the King examined the Lincoln Patent Air Rifle, pronouncing it ‘very ingenious’.
Lincoln Jeffries continued their production of air rifles, and in the early 1900’s started producing a range of lead pellets, and steel flighted darts under the names ‘Lincoln’, ‘Target’, ‘Match’, and ‘Bisley’. With the company increasing in stature, they were able to again move to a much larger premises at 121 Steelhouse Lane, from where he produced his world famous ‘Lincoln Air Rifle’. In 1888, he relocated to a large premises, at 48 Whittall Street and Lincoln Jeffries began designing and manufacturing air rifles. From his premises in Whittall Street Lincoln Jeffries produced sporting rifles and also award winning single and double barrelled shotguns. George and his brother Arthur had arrived in Birmingham from Norwich in around 1866 having both worked for their father, also named George Jeffries, who was a highly skilled established gun maker and had premises in Golden Ball Street and Orford Hill, Norwich. The business of Lincoln Jeffries was first established in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter in the year 1873 at 31 Whittall Street by George Lincoln Jeffries.
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