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HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A MATCHED PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 33821 and 36264,
for 1953 and 1956 respectively, 28in. replacement nitro barrels (by the makers in 2008 and 2013 respectively), ribs gold-inlaid '1' and '2', the No.1 also with 'Royal' in script, the tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. BRUTON STREET. LONDON.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/2 choke, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge triggerguards, best bold Royal scroll engraving, the undersides with 'ROYAL MODEL' in elaborate cartouches, the crosspin covers with 'MADE IN ENGLAND', bright and blued finishes overall, 14 7/8in. figured stocks (No.2 a replacement and with matching fore-end wood), weight 6lb. 9oz. (No.1) and 6lb. 15oz. (No.2), in a bespoke brass-cornered oak and leather two-tiered motor case, with lift out tray for one gun, with full complement of brass-mounted Holland & Holland accessories
Provenance: the makers have kindly confirmed that gun no. 33821 was completed on the 12th May 1953 for 'Stevens' and that gun No. 36264 was made 'to match gun no. 33821 supplied in 1953' for a 'J.E.G. Stevens' in March 1956, the record books noting that this gun was 'Taken by Mrs J. Stevens'
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Estimate £15,000-20,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act