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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	.577 Tolley prize rifle Dec 31^st, 2016 at 11:57am	Print Post
	I've had it decades. It was made by Tolley on a smaller snider action and then engraved all over. It was donated to the Toronto black powder breech loading shooting club as the rifle to be shot for as the prize. What a grand era it was! Looked around for information but without any results. Anyone out there know some information? .


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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #1 - Dec 31^st, 2016 at 1:14pm	Print Post
	I would love to see more photos showing the overall rifle.


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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #2 - Dec 31^st, 2016 at 1:57pm	Print Post
	Here is the engraved action of the Tolley .577
	« Last Edit: Jan 8^th, 2017 at 6:27am by Life#75 »

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jy3855 Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 368 Location: California Joined: Jul 13^th, 2015	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #3 - Dec 31^st, 2016 at 3:38pm	Print Post
	Very nice rifle, thank you for the extra pic.


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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #4 - Dec 31^st, 2016 at 3:49pm	Print Post
	Here is an overall picture. I will add the engraving pictures later.
	« Last Edit: Jan 8^th, 2017 at 6:26am by Life#75 »

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Chuckster Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2203 Location: Colorado Joined: May 15^th, 2008	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #5 - Jan 1^st, 2017 at 11:17am	Print Post
	Nice rifle. Seldom see that action done up that fancy. Might be a mention of the match in the newspaper if microfilm is available. Not a target rifle, but would work for moose, appears seldom used. Chuck


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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #6 - Jan 1^st, 2017 at 11:38am	Print Post
	Some engraving of the Tolley rifle. As Chuckster says it is a nice hunter model .577 rifle.
	« Last Edit: Jan 8^th, 2017 at 6:18am by Life#75 »

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RCRBanjo Full Member Offline Posts: 114 Joined: Nov 25^th, 2009	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #7 - Jan 1^st, 2017 at 6:41pm	Print Post
	I have a Snider by J.C.&A Lord, London, Birmingham, Bombay that I refer to as a sporting carbine. Somewhat similar to yours and perhaps not as rare. It has lighter engraving, checkering, ramrod, and the trigger guard is a little different. Perhaps among the first cartridge firearms used on tigers in India and dangerous game in Africa. Phun to shoot!!


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 15771 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #8 - Jan 1^st, 2017 at 8:21pm	Print Post
	That's not only a great looking gun, but hard to beat the provenance! I love guns with great provenance. Should be able to possibly find out who actually won it! That would really add to it's provenance! I have an old Ballard with presentation plaque. Original owner's name was on the plaque, and it only had one other owner/family after that. So was pretty easy to get it's history.

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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #9 - Jan 1^st, 2017 at 8:46pm	Print Post
	more - bone tipped forend
	« Last Edit: Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 7:16am by Life#75 »

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QuestionableMaynard8130 Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4143 Location: Berrien Springs, MI Joined: Apr 17^th, 2004	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #10 - Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 11:49am	Print Post
	somewhere in my library I have a book indexing "Canadian Gunsmiths" it may be more relevant to the earlier flint/percussion rifle era but I'll try to dig it out and report back if any Tolley's are listed.

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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #11 - Jan 2^nd, 2017 at 2:15pm	Print Post
	I too have the Canadian Gunsmiths book, and have have seen a few of those exotic percussion rifles in person over the years! Unfortunately there is no Tolley in the listings, as they were an English manufacturing company.
	« Last Edit: Jan 8^th, 2017 at 6:16am by Life#75 »

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Life#75 Junior Member Offline Posts: 57 Location: Grimsby Ontario Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: .577 Tolley prize rifle Reply #12 - Jan 6^th, 2017 at 6:33am	Print Post
	another picture


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