This stunning Medium Game custom Mauser features a tight scroll engraved wedge at the muzzle, beaded blade front sight with flip up hood, matching engraved mid barrel band with sling eye, engraved raised quarter rib with four folding leaf rear express notch sights graduated from 100 to 400 meters with platinum inlaid sighting lines, "30-06/220 GRS." caliber marking, standard British proofs, and more fine scroll at the breech. The receiver is engraved with an attractive combination of tight scrollwork and leafy acanthus patterns, jewelled bolt body and extractor, polished follower, engraved bolt handle with knurled panels on the knob, gold inlaid "FIRE" and "SAFE" markings on the wing safety, and bolt shroud mounted adjustable rear peep sight. The trigger guard assembly and floorplate are also fully engraved with matching scroll and a brilliant semi-relief, gold inlaid kudu bust is at the center of the floorplate. The barrel and receiver ring are custom inscribed "JOHNRIGBY & Co. 43 SACKVILLE ST. LONDON, W." and "RIGBY/MAUSER/MEDIUM/GAME" respectively.The underside of the barrel is marked with the serial number "75005." The left side of the receiver under the stock is marked "GERMANY." Attractive English walnut, checkered pistol grip stock with horn forend cap, engraved blue steel grip cap, and solid rubber Pachmayr recoil pad. This exceptionally attractive rifle is from the collection of the late Jim Wilkinson of Prescott, Arizona. Wilkinson grew up spending his summers working the family Granite Dells Ranch in Arizona and returning to his native Illinois for school in the fall. Wilkinson attended the University of Illinois and began his career in his families Central Illinois lumberyards. In 1946 he permanently moved to Arizona to work his own ranch in Granite Dells, and establish the Rifle Ranch a gun store specializing in custom rifles, handloading, and shooting supplies. Wilkinson was an avid hunter with expeditions to Canada, and Alaska as well as more exciting destinations such as Africa, Afghanistan, India, and Nepal, all in the pursuit of mountain sheep. Wilkinson would become the 10th person in the world to achieve the "Super Slam" which is a collection of 16 different types of wild sheep found on four separate continents.