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HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A 16-BORE 'ROYAL MODEL' SELF-OPENING HAND-DETACHABLE SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 33456,
for 1955, 28in. nitro reproved chopperlump barrels, the rib engraved in script "'Royal"', the tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. 98. NEW BOND STREET. LONDON.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, left wall at 19, treble-grip action with hidden third bite, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge triggerguard, best bold Royal scroll engraving, the underside with 'ROYAL MODEL' in an elaborate cartouche, the crosspin cover with 'MADE IN ENGLAND' around a central floral design, retaining traces of colour-hardening, 15in. figured stock including 1in. leather covered recoil pad, weight 6lb. 3oz., in a lightweight leather case with canvas and leather outer cover
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1955 for a Marcus Holland of Cochrane, Georgia
The vendor kindly informs us that he has owned the gun for nearly forty years and has used it very sparingly (having kept it as a stand-by gun to his pair of 16-bore Hollands and pair of 16-bore Woodward guns). He also informs us the gun has had just two owners since it was built
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Estimate £8,000-12,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act