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I have an Alexander Henry dual ignition underlever shotgun and can find no info on it Any ideas to help

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I have two Henry doubles. The first I'll mention is a .450BPE serial# 3143 and all the attendant information listed in the Donald Dallas book which has become THE Alexander Henry reference is perfect straight across the boards. However my other Henry double seems to present a problem, at least to my interpretation. It is a double muzzleloader, serial# 661. Now if you reference the Dallas book the breakdown info you find is B/S/B/L/R. Try as I might, the only interpretation I get from that is that it is a Best gun, one which is a Single Breech Loading Rifle, which it most obviously is not. So is the goof on my reading of the code or in the printing of the list in Mr Dallas' book? I am very curious as to what exactly the answer to this is.


Forgot to mention, both guns reside with me in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts.

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I have two Henry doubles. The first I'll mention is a .450BPE serial# 3143 and all the attendant information listed in the Donald Dallas book which has become THE Alexander Henry reference is perfect straight across the boards. However my other Henry double seems to present a problem, at least to my interpretation. It is a double muzzleloader, serial# 661. Now if you reference the Dallas book the breakdown info you find is B/S/B/L/R. Try as I might, the only interpretation I get from that is that it is a Best gun, one which is a Single Breech Loading Rifle, which it most obviously is not. So is the goof on my reading of the code or in the printing of the list in Mr Dallas' book? I am very curious as to what exactly the answer to this is.

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Check this site. Royal Armouries has about 15 Alexander Henry"s:

https://collections.royalarmouries.org/#/objects?search=Alexander+Henry&sort=relevance


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.500 (3” Black Powder Express) Double Barrelled Hammer Rifle by Alexander Henry, No. 5347 cased
CT Auctions UK 2021


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.450 3 1/4 Alexander Henry double rifle, serial number 6803 cased
Peter Wilson Auctions UK 2020
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.450/400 Alexander Henry double rifle serial number 1168
Anthony Cribb Auctions 2018


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Thought I'd posted this before, but I have #6479, a small frame takedown falling block in 360 BPE. An earlier post about it is here: https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=589024&page=1

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Originally Posted by Krakow Kid
I have two Henry doubles. The first I'll mention is a .450BPE serial# 3143 and all the attendant information listed in the Donald Dallas book which has become THE Alexander Henry reference is perfect straight across the boards. However my other Henry double seems to present a problem, at least to my interpretation. It is a double muzzleloader, serial# 661. Now if you reference the Dallas book the breakdown info you find is B/S/B/L/R. Try as I might, the only interpretation I get from that is that it is a Best gun, one which is a Single Breech Loading Rifle, which it most obviously is not. So is the goof on my reading of the code or in the printing of the list in Mr Dallas' book? I am very curious as to what exactly the answer to this is.
Sorry not to have replied ! Shocking ...

#661 is a double - but #662 is blank.

Does your double have a patent use number ?


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Originally Posted by Krakow Kid
I have two Henry doubles. The first I'll mention is a .450BPE serial# 3143 and all the attendant information listed in the Donald Dallas book which has become THE Alexander Henry reference is perfect straight across the boards. However my other Henry double seems to present a problem, at least to my interpretation. It is a double muzzleloader, serial# 661. Now if you reference the Dallas book the breakdown info you find is B/S/B/L/R. Try as I might, the only interpretation I get from that is that it is a Best gun, one which is a Single Breech Loading Rifle, which it most obviously is not. So is the goof on my reading of the code or in the printing of the list in Mr Dallas' book? I am very curious as to what exactly the answer to this is.

#1064 is a best double, but breech-loading rifle ... with patent use number #661 ... ?


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