Lot Essay
Please note that these guns are Section 2 shotguns.
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PROPERTY OF ROBERT DE BALKANY (Lots 643-655)
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SINGLE-TRIGGER SIDELOCK EJECTORS
HOLLAND & HOLLAND, LONDON, SERIAL NOS. 25447/8
Details
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SINGLE-TRIGGER SIDELOCK EJECTORS
HOLLAND & HOLLAND, LONDON, SERIAL NOS. 25447/8
With blacked barrels with spurious Holland & Holland signatures on the tubes and respectively numbered '1' and '2' in gold on the rib, actions engraved 'ROYAL HAMMERLESS EJECTOR' on the undersides, signed locks with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE', blued trigger-plates engraved 'PATENT SINGLE TRIGGER', well figured 15 in. replacement stocks, in original maker's leather double case, together with the original well figured 'pistol hand' stocks
28 in. (71 cm.) replacement nitro barrels (not by the makers), 2 ½ in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. & ¼ choke
6 lbs. 11 oz.
HOLLAND & HOLLAND, LONDON, SERIAL NOS. 25447/8
With blacked barrels with spurious Holland & Holland signatures on the tubes and respectively numbered '1' and '2' in gold on the rib, actions engraved 'ROYAL HAMMERLESS EJECTOR' on the undersides, signed locks with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE', blued trigger-plates engraved 'PATENT SINGLE TRIGGER', well figured 15 in. replacement stocks, in original maker's leather double case, together with the original well figured 'pistol hand' stocks
28 in. (71 cm.) replacement nitro barrels (not by the makers), 2 ½ in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. & ¼ choke
6 lbs. 11 oz.
Provenance
The makers have kindly confirmed that this pair of guns were completed in 1909 with 30 in. barrels and "pistol hand" stocks.