Lot 32
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A FINE .500/.465 (3¼IN. NITRO EXPRESS: '.465 INDIA') D.B. HAMMERLESS 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK EJECTOR RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 19489, automatic safety, hand-detachable lockplates, articulated front trigger, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, elongated top-strap, best bold foliate-scroll engraving, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved and colour-hardened pistolgrip-cap (with trap), cheekpiece and leather-covered recoil-pad, sling-swivels, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with matt sight-rib, open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight with fold-away moon-sight

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A FINE .500/.465 (3¼IN. NITRO EXPRESS: '.465 INDIA') D.B. HAMMERLESS 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK EJECTOR RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 19489, automatic safety, hand-detachable lockplates, articulated front trigger, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, elongated top-strap, best bold foliate-scroll engraving, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved and colour-hardened pistolgrip-cap (with trap), cheekpiece and leather-covered recoil-pad, sling-swivels, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with matt sight-rib, open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight with fold-away moon-sight
Weight 10lb. 10oz., 14 5/8in. pull, 26in. barrels, nitro proof
In its leather case

Lot Essay

Holland & Holland have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in 1911. The .500/.465 (N.E.) cartridge was introduced circa 1907 and was one of a number of cartridges intended initially as replacements for the .450 which had been banned by the British in India and the Sudan as a counter-insurgency measure. The standard .500/.465 cartridge develops 2,150 fps and 4,930 fpe at the muzzle

The lot is subject to V.A.T. as a re-import

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