Tom, go to
www.hillrodandgun.com. Scroll down until you come to the Webley & Scott priced at $5800. Yours sounds to me like the same gun: drop points, bushed pins, virtually full coverage extremely well-executed small scroll engraving, carved leaves on the fences, wedges of engraving on the barrel breaches. That would be a Model 400 Grade 1. I have a dead twin to the gun shown on the Hill website. With apologies to Researcher, the number he gave you would be about average price for a Webley & Scott Model 700 in decent condition, which is a good, solid gun but doesn't compare to a 400 Grade 1. (Mine also has extremely nice wood, and it looks like the Hill gun does as well.) With apologies to Researcher, I think those guns approach the level of "boxlock best". You can pay more for a name, but you won't see many Brit boxlocks of better quality than a 400 Grade 1. (The Brits went backwards, and the Grade 1 was the top grade; then the Grade 2; Grade 3, pretty plain, at the bottom.
