The maker’s records confirm that this rifle was completed on March 18, 1852 for a Henry Davidson Esq. With browned damascus twist octagonal barrel signed on the top flat “JOHN DICKSON & SON. 60. PRINCES STREET. EDINBURGH” and fitted with bead front sight and blued rear sight of one standing and two folding leaves. The barrel is rifled with two deep grooves for a winged conical bullet. Casehardened breech with platinum plug engraved with a rosette, inlaid with a platinum line and engraved with a roped border line and scrollwork. Barrel struck with London proof marks. Casehardened side lock with safety catch, signed “JOHN DICKSON & SON”. Casehardened standing breech and furniture including hinged patch box cover, and blued pistol grip trigger guard and butt plate. Border and scroll engraved throughout, the lock with a vignette of a dead stag, the patch box cover with a standing stag, and the tang of the butt plate with a stag’s head. Well figured straight hand half stock with raised cheekpiece, checkered grip and forearm, sling button fitted to the underside of the butt, a corresponding sling eye is on the central ramrod pipe, and a dark horn cap to the forearm. In oak fitted case lined in tooled pigskin, the lid with John Dickson & Son printed trade label, and with accessories including brass bullet mold, powder flask, patch punch and pots with turned lids.