Product Details
HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING HAND-DETACHABLE SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 30722 / 3,
for 1923, 30in. replacement nitro chopperlump barrels (by the makers in 2008), the ribs gold-inlaid '1' and '2' and with acanthus scroll detailing at the breech-ends, the tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND. BRUTON STREET. LONDON.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 and 3/4 choke in both, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2' and engraved 'ROYAL EJECTOR', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, Holland & Holland semi-selective single-triggers, rolled-edge triggerguards, the actions and lockplates engraved with best bold Royal scroll engraving, the undersides with elaborate cartouches engraved '"ROYAL" SELF-OPENER. PATENT 1922' and 'HOLLAND'S SINGLE TRIGGER.', retaining virtually full renewed colour-hardening and finish, 14 1/8in. highly figured replacement stocks with matching fore-ends the finials with gold-inlaid '1' and '2', weight 6lb. 15oz. (no.1) and 6lb. 13oz. (no.2), in a brass-cornered oak and leather double guncase. the lid exterior embossed 'R.H. Willan 60th Rifles'
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this pair was completed in 1923 for a Captain Rowland Philipson
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Estimate £30,000-40,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act