Product Details
BOSS & CO.
AN EXCEPTIONAL 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER ROUND-BODIED OVER AND UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 10200,
30in. nitro barrels with no top-rib, short sight flat with fine acanthus scroll designs and the barrel engraved 'BOSS & CO. 16. MOUNT STREET. MAYFAIR. LONDON. W.1.', side-ribs, 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 and 1/4 choke, rounded bar action, hold-open toplever, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, Boss improved patent single trigger, rolled-edge triggerguard, the action, lockplates and furniture engraved with best fine bouquet and scroll motifs surrounding oval and circular vignettes of pheasant and partridge in flight, bright finish overall, 14 1/2in. highly-figured stock, weight 7lb. 10oz., in its lightweight leather motor case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in August 2002
Other Notes: This exceptional gun features as the front cover illustration on the authorised, definitive history of 'Boss and Co. Best Gunmakers' by Donald Dallas
Estimate £120,000-140,000
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