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Auction archive: Lot number 97

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROU...

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$79,320 - US$118,980
Price realised:
£81,600
ca. US$161,813
Auction archive: Lot number 97

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROU...

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$79,320 - US$118,980
Price realised:
£81,600
ca. US$161,813
Beschreibung:

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROUND-BODIED SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY BOSS & CO., NO. 7307/8, WITH INTERCHANGEABLE 12-BORE BARRELS
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROUND-BODIED SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY BOSS & CO., NO. 7307/8, WITH INTERCHANGEABLE 12-BORE BARRELS Fine rose and scroll engraving, retaining virtually all original colour hardening, light scroll engraved side-levers, gold inlaid 'safe', gold inlaid numbering '1' and '2' to top-straps, forends and game ribs, gold inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge trigger guards, highly figured stocks with chequered grips, chopper-lump barrels of Whitworth steel with Maker's details to rib. The later interchangeable 12-bore barrels by the Maker with gold inlaid '1' and '2' Nos. 1&2 (14 bore), Weight 6lb 2oz. to both, 29in. barrels to both, 14¼in. stocks, choke approx. ½ and ½ to both, 2½in. chambers to both, nitro proof Nos. 1&2 (12 bore), Weight 6lb 6½oz., 27in. barrels to both, choke approx. ¼ and ½ to both, 2½in. chambers to both, nitro proof In Maker's brass mounted oak and leather case with Maker's 12-bore snap caps

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
15 May 2007, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROUND-BODIED SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY BOSS & CO., NO. 7307/8, WITH INTERCHANGEABLE 12-BORE BARRELS
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 14-BORE SIDELEVER ROUND-BODIED SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY BOSS & CO., NO. 7307/8, WITH INTERCHANGEABLE 12-BORE BARRELS Fine rose and scroll engraving, retaining virtually all original colour hardening, light scroll engraved side-levers, gold inlaid 'safe', gold inlaid numbering '1' and '2' to top-straps, forends and game ribs, gold inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge trigger guards, highly figured stocks with chequered grips, chopper-lump barrels of Whitworth steel with Maker's details to rib. The later interchangeable 12-bore barrels by the Maker with gold inlaid '1' and '2' Nos. 1&2 (14 bore), Weight 6lb 2oz. to both, 29in. barrels to both, 14¼in. stocks, choke approx. ½ and ½ to both, 2½in. chambers to both, nitro proof Nos. 1&2 (12 bore), Weight 6lb 6½oz., 27in. barrels to both, choke approx. ¼ and ½ to both, 2½in. chambers to both, nitro proof In Maker's brass mounted oak and leather case with Maker's 12-bore snap caps

Auction archive: Lot number 97
Auction:
Datum:
15 May 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
15 May 2007, London, King Street
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