Product Details
IVO FABBRI
A VERY FINE PAIR OF TOMASONI-ENGRAVED 20-BORE 'MAJESTIC GRADE ORNAMENTAL' SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER AND UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. E621 / 2,
26in. nitro barrels with 8mm ventilated matt top-ribs and side-ribs, tubes engraved 'IVO FABBRI BRESCIA. VACUUM ARC REMELTING STEEL', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, hold-open toplevers, manual safeties, cocking-indicators, the actions, lockplates and furniture fully carved in relief on a finely matted background with scrolling floral and acanthus motifs, the fore-end irons decorated en-suite, the lockplates with a Chimaera couchant, the undersides with kneeling sylphs and the makers name in an elaborate shield, the triggerplates signed 'inc. C. Tomasoni', bright finish, 14 3/8in. highly-figured stocks, weight 6lb., in their Nizzoli lightweight leather motor case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1984, and that "they passed the not the standard (mandatory) proof, but the High Pressure Test at the Proof House in Italy".
The wall thicknesses of this pair of guns read below the standard recommended minimum for vintage guns, however, the makers have confirmed that with certain grades of modern high resistance steel, different guidelines are laid down.
The method Fabbri use to produce their steel, vacuum arc remelting involves being twice melted down under vacuum conditions to ensure that it has no impurities, inclusions and shows isotropic mechanical properties.
Fabbri kindly inform us that " The European C.I.P. (Commission Internationale Permanente) for our kind of steel permits minimum thickness of 0.30 mm (12/1000"), and for the 2 less resistant class of materials 0.40 mm (16/1000")."
Estimate £80,000-100,000
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