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A CAST IRON HOLLAND & HOLLAND LOCOMOTIVE SIGN FROM THE FLYING SCOTSMAN,
measuring approx. 40in. x 12in. white semi-circle with black, together with a framed print "GOING NORTH" with Holland & Holland' of the original painting by Peter Munro an Inverness based artist who was commissioned to paint a picture showing the group preparing to board the train at St Pancras station and he reflected the scenes shown in the famous pictures "Going North" painted one hundred and twenty years previously, measuring approx. 31 1/2in. x 24in., together with a photograph of the sign on the front of The Flying Scotsman
Provenance: In the year 2000 Holland and Holland were looking at ways to celebrate the Millennium and their Sport and Travel division came up with a project that involved hiring the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive and the luxury Royal Scotsman train.
Experience gained through sending many parties to South Africa to shoot winged game using Rohan Voss's Rovos Rail trains encouraged Holland and Holland to envisage a train starting in London and over two days travelling to Inverness with ten shooters with wives and partners on board. Once in the highland capital they would go to Kinveachy Lodge south of the town and the hunting lodge of the Earl of Seafield, to shoot grouse and partridge, before returning to London on the train.
Several well known gun collectors were passengers on the train including the late Jack Malloy, one of the most knowledgeable collector/ dealers in the USA , and John Thouron who had one of the most comprehensive collections of Holland and Holland guns in America.
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Estimate £300-500