Product Details
HOLLAND & HOLLAND
A 12-BORE 'ROYAL' SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR 1885 FOSBERY PATENT 'PARADOX' RIFLED-CHOKE SHOT AND BALL GUN, serial no. 15024, with extra 12-bore shot barrels,
for 1892, 28in. black powder only barrels, raised matt sight rib with two folding leaf sights, bead fore-sight, tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND 98 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON. '"PARADOX" FOSBERY PATENT', 2 1/2in. chambers, Fosbery patent rifled chokes, patent no. 7568 of 1885;
extra 30in. nitro barrels, tubes engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND 98 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and full choke;
treble-grip action, the face with W.M. Scott and T. Baker patent 'gas check' gas vents, patent no. 617 of 1882, use number 4905, elongated top tang, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, dipped-edge lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best fine border and acanthus scroll engraving, 15 5/8in. stock including 2 3/8in. wooden extension and ventilated rubber recoil pad, some losses to fore-end wood, weight 7lb. 4oz. (paradox) 6lb. 15oz. (shot), in its makers brass-cornered leather double guncase with 'Charges for Breech Loading Gun' label listing serial number 15021; together with a single leather leg of mutton guncase embossed 'J. J. J.'
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed in 1892 for a 'Mr Joicey', and that an extra set of 30in. shot barrels were made in 1905
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Estimate £3,000-5,000
S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act