Product Details
HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'ROYAL BREVIS' SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING HAND-DETACHABLE SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 32913/4,
No.1 and 2 guns of a trio, built in 1932, 27in. replacement nitro chopperlump barrels (by the makers in 1980), the ribs engraved in script 'Royal Brevis' and gold-inlaid '1' and '2' at the breech ends, the tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. 13. BRUTON STREET. LONDON' (rubbed), 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/4 choke, No. 2 right wall at 17, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2' and with peacock feather engraved thumbpieces, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge triggerguards, Holland & Holland semi-selective single triggers, best bold Royal scroll engraving, the undersides with an elaborate cartouche engraved 'ROYAL SELF-OPENER PATENT 1922', the triggerplates with 'HOLLAND'S SINGLE TRIGGER', 14 7/8in. well-figured replacement semi-pistolgrip stocks with matching fore-end woods, weight 6lb. 9oz. (No.1) and 6lb. 7oz. (No.2), in a leather case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were built in 1932 for a Monsieur Eddy Edmond-Blanc as part of a 'set of three 12-bore "Royal Brevis" Hammerless Ejector "Self Opening" Guns' with 26 1/2in. barrels and half-pistol hand stocks. The records note new barrels fitted in 1980
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Estimate £7,000-9,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act