Live Auction 6108Sporting Art
Lot 108A

Rodger McPhail (b.1953)

Three studies for K.E. Preater engravings on a .300, Holland & Holland, sesquicentennial Royal de Luxe, DB hammerless single-trigger sidelock ejector rifle

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Rodger McPhail (b.1953)
Three studies for K.E. Preater engravings on a .300, Holland & Holland, sesquicentennial Royal de Luxe, DB hammerless single-trigger sidelock ejector rifle
two signed with initials 'R.M.' (lower left), the other signed with initials 'R.M' (lower right)
pencil, pen and black ink, heightened with white
4 x 11 in. (10.2 x 29.2 cm.); and smaller

Specialist note

The rifle for which the present designs were executed was made for H.I.H. Prince Abdoreza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran in 1985. The drawings were executed for the engraver K.E. Preater. The rifle was sold by Christie's, 28 October 1992, lot 7 (34,500).
For a note on the artist, see lot 118.