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A FINE COROMBELLE-ENGRAVED AND GOLD-ENCRUSTED 12-BORE (2¾IN)
SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY AUGUSTE FRANCOTTE, NO. 85420
'Fait Pour B.D. Zissu à Bucarest', the undersides of the barrels gold-inlaid with the inscription 'Quod Fieri Ferro Liquidove Potest Electro', Holland & Holland system self-opening action with Holland & Holland hand-detachable lockplates, articulated front trigger, rolled-edge triggerguard, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, the action-body, lockplates and furniture gold-encrusted with flowers, fruit and foliage amid relief-engraved bold foliate-scrolls, the whole on a matt ground and the forend-iron decorated en-suite, the triggerplate signed 'H. Corombelle - Graveur', highly-figured stock, the Antinit Boehler Steel chopper-lump barrels with self-opening compressor and matt top-rib (slightly loose)
Weight: 6lb. 11oz., 14in. stock, 27in. barrels, both approx. ½ choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof
