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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1889
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, NO. 12520 (NO. 1) AND 12522 (NO. 3)
The numbers 1 and 3 of a trio of guns
The dipped-edge lockplates with protruding tumbler-pivots, best bouquet and scroll engraving, well-figured stocks with semi-pistolgrips and recoil-pads, the combs inset with leather-covered cheek-pads, the barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 12oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 13½oz. (No. 3), 14¾in. pulls, 30in. barrels, choke approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) and cyl. & 7/8 (No. 3), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (No. 3 right bore-dimension marginal)
The numbers 1 and 3 of a trio of guns
The dipped-edge lockplates with protruding tumbler-pivots, best bouquet and scroll engraving, well-figured stocks with semi-pistolgrips and recoil-pads, the combs inset with leather-covered cheek-pads, the barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 12oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 13½oz. (No. 3), 14¾in. pulls, 30in. barrels, choke approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) and cyl. & 7/8 (No. 3), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (No. 3 right bore-dimension marginal)
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