Lot 38
38
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE (2¾IN) 'SUPREME DE-LUXE' SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY A.A. BROWN, No. 79687/8, Holland & Holland system self-opening action, hand-detachable locks, rolled-edge triggerguards, gold-washed lockwork, ejector mechanisms, self-opening compressors, extractor cams and strikers, the lockwork with additional engraving, the lockplates and action-bodies engraved with game scenes surrounded by best foliate-scroll engraving, with full hardening-colour, well-figured stocks, the chopper-lump barrels with filed Churchill-style ribs and scroll-engraved breech-ends

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A PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE (2¾IN) 'SUPREME DE-LUXE' SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY A.A. BROWN, No. 79687/8, Holland & Holland system self-opening action, hand-detachable locks, rolled-edge triggerguards, gold-washed lockwork, ejector mechanisms, self-opening compressors, extractor cams and strikers, the lockwork with additional engraving, the lockplates and action-bodies engraved with game scenes surrounded by best foliate-scroll engraving, with full hardening-colour, well-figured stocks, the chopper-lump barrels with filed Churchill-style ribs and scroll-engraved breech-ends
Weight 6lb. 4oz., 14 3/8in. stocks, 26in. barrels, both approx. I.C. &½ choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof

Lot Essay

The guns were completed circa 1978 and appear to be virtually unused.

The makers were recently the subject of a multi-page article in The Double Gun Journal, Spring 1993

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

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