Product Details
BOSS & CO.
A PAIR OF 12-BORE EASY-OPENING SINGLE-TRIGGER SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 6767 / 8, with extra barrels,
original barrels sleeved to 30 1/8in. (in 2010), the ribs engraved 'BOSS & CO. LTD. 13-14 CORK ST. LONDON. W.1.' and gold-inlaid '1' and '2' at the breech ends, 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke;
new 27in. nitro barrels (by the makers, serial numbered 9511 / 2, circa 1970), ribs engraved 'BOSS & CO. LTD 13-14 CORK ST. LONDON. W.1' and gold-inlaid '1' and '2' at the breech ends, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke,
toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, Boss 1905 improved patent single-triggers, rolled-edge triggerguards, best fine acanthus scroll engraving with floral bouquets, the undersides with 'BOSS & Co. PATENT' and the single trigger patent details, retaining much colour-hardening and finish (possibly renewed), 15in. figured semi-pistolgrip 'rational' stocks including 3/4in. leather covered recoil pads, minor setting cracks to rear of lockplates, weight 6lb. 10oz. (sleeved barrels) and 6lb. 6oz. (new barrels), in a lightweight leather case, the sleeved barrels in an individual lightweight leather barrel case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this pair was completed in July 1921 for The Lord Falconer.
Lord Falconer, Arthur George Keith-Falconer was born in 1879. He served in the Scots Guards in South Africa 1900-1902 and as a reserve 1915-1921 in the Great War. He succeeded his father as the 10th Earl of Kintore in 1930. He resided at 105 Mount Street and at Keith Hall, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
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Estimate £15,000-20,000 € 16,644-22,193
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act