Product Details
BOSS & CO.
AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF PEDRETTI-ENGRAVED 20-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER ROUNDED-BAR EASY-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 10139 / 40,
28in. nitro chopperlump barrels, ribs gold-inlaid '1' and '2', tubes engraved 'BOSS & CO. 13 DOVER STREET, PICCADILLY. LONDON. ENGLAND.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/4 choke, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, removable striker discs, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, Boss improved patent single triggers, rolled-edge triggerguards, rounded bar actions carved in high relief with scrolling foliate motifs on a finely matted background, the lockplates exquisitely engraved in bulino style with depictions of partridge, grouse and pheasant, the undersides with a lone woodcock, signed 'G.S. Pedretti', the triggerguard tangs gold-inlaid with the serial numbers, bright finish overall, 14 5/8in. highly-figured stocks including buttplates, weight 6lb. 1oz., in their lightweight leather motor case with canvas outer
Provenance: The makers have kindly informed us that this pair of shotguns were ordered with 28in. barrels in July 1996.
Estimate £70,000-90,000
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