Product Details
HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A FINE, VIRTUALLY UNUSED SWAN-ENGRAVED .500 (3IN.) NITRO EXPRESS 'ROYAL' HAND-DETACHABLE SIDELOCK EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE, serial no. 35779,
24in. nitro chopperlump barrels with finely matted sight rib, gold-inlaid '2' at the breech end, open sights and folding leaf sight with gold-inlaid sighting details and marked for 50 and 100 yards, finely matted ramp-mounted gold bead fore-sight with fold-over protector / moonsight, concave rib gold-inlaid '.500 NITRO EXPRESS - 3" ', the tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. BRUTON STREET. LONDON.' side-clipped treble-grip action with hidden third bite, side bolsters, removable striker discs, toplever gold-inlaid '2', elongated top strap with manual safety, gold-inlaid 'CHECK' detail, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, gold-washed internals, chequered articulated front trigger, rolled-edge triggerguard, the action, furniture and lockplates engraved with best bold Royal scroll engraving, the fences with stylised leaf motifs, the underside with a cartouche engraved 'THE "ROYAL" MODEL', the lockplates gold-inlaid with the makers name in an oval cartouche, the triggerguard tang gold-inlaid with the serial number, retaining virtually full original colour-hardening and finish,15in. very highly-figured pistolgrip stock with cheekpiece, palm swell, engraved and colour-hardened steel pistolgrip-cap (with trap), sling swivels and finely engraved and colour-hardened skeletal steel buttplate, engraved and colour-hardened steel fore-end finial gold-inlaid '2', the fore-end iron gold-inlaid 'ENG. KIRSTY SWAN', weight 10lb. 14oz.
Provenance: This rifle was completed in 2012 for the vendor and apart from regulation and target work to ascertain grouping, we are informed, is unused.
It was commissioned to form a pair to the preceding Lot and the two rifles have several features the vendor requested especially, such as the engraved skeletal butt-plates. The rifle is accompanied by a copy of its regulation target paper showing excellent grouping characteristics.
The following Lot is the case commissioned to house the pair.
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Estimate £70,000-90,000
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