拍品 20
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A .303 D.B. HAMMERLESS 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 17570, bolted automatic safe, elongated top-strap, rounded bar, chequered front trigger, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best bold foliate-scroll engraving, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and butt-plate, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib, open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight

細節
A .303 D.B. HAMMERLESS 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 17570, bolted automatic safe, elongated top-strap, rounded bar, chequered front trigger, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best bold foliate-scroll engraving, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and butt-plate, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib, open-sights and ramp-mounted bead-foresight
Weight 8lb. 10oz., 14¾in. pull, 28in. barrels, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case

拍品專文

Holland & Holland have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed on 25 January 1897. It was initially shot and regulated with 30 grains of cordite and, in keeping with most early .303 rifles, subsequently re-regulated with new sights. The Holland & Holland books have two further entries in March and June 1908 detailing the work undertaken