Product Details
HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SEMI-SELECTIVE SINGLE-TRIGGER SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 16647,
for 1898, 30in. nitro reproved barrels, tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. 98. NEW BOND STREET. LONDON.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 3/4 choke, left wall at 13, action incorporating Holland & Woodward patent No. 23,751 of 1894 single trigger, with later patent No. 4893 of 1897 semi-selective device (mechanism detached but parts appear to be present in guncase), automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, right lockplate with barrel selector switch (fixed in place), best 'Royal' scroll engraving, the underside with 'ROYAL HAMMERLESS EJECTOR' in an elaborate cartouche and 'PATENT SINGLE TRIGGER' in an oval, brushed finish, 13 3/4in. figured replacement stock, insert repairs to fore-end wood, weight 6lb. 6oz., in a leather case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed in September 1898 as a '12-bore Royal hammerless "AB" ejector single trigger gun' for an F. Rennie
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Estimate £3,000-5,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act