410 bore and 28 bore are in high demand worldwide by both collectors and shooters but this is a relatively new phenomenon. The stock oval still retains the initials of the original owner “JFT”. The ubiquitous design is used on the best guns offered from makers in England, Spain, Belgium, Italy, and Turkey all the way to Japan and it remains the most copied sidelock action design in history.Ī 1901 Holland & Holland advert from The Badminton MagazineĪ best quality Holland & Holland 'Royal' stocked with a long LOP over a thin leather recoil pad. I would also venture to say, it is most likely a Holland & Holland 'Royal' that pops in your head when you think of a sidelock shotgun.
Among the firm’s fifty-one patents, it is Henry Holland’s 'Royal' model sidelock ejector, Holland’s flagship hammerless double gun or rifle, that remains one of the main reasons guns from this maker are among the most sought after in the World. Henry Holland was apprenticed to his uncle Harris Holland in 1860 and by 1876 the two formed a partnership creating the firm “Holland & Holland”.
Finished in 1964, this gun was acquired from the family of the original owner and it remains in original, as new condition. Agency, a Holland & Holland The' Royal' Model in.
We could define it as a Swiss watch internally.A wonderful little gun recently showed up at the U.S. It is a screw pin and allows you to see the internal mechanisms of the rifle. The last rifle, again English, from the very famous Holland & Holland house, but it is an extra luxury model, royale model, and it has this side battery where there are all the waste devices that can be dismantled by hand through a small key that rotates. We can see it from the barrels that are built with damascus steel and from this particular lateral folder defined as pear because it has this different and unusual shape compared to modern rifles. The rifle looks very beautiful as it is engraved by one of the most important Italian master engravers: Francesco Medici.įor the third rifle we have a historical rifle, from the Holland & Holland house in London, from the late 1800s. In this case we have a particularity: the opening of this rifle is through a lateral key which is called "lateral coil". The second shotgun is produced by the Armi Desenzani laboratory, an extra-luxury double-barreled shotgun. They are luxury rifles, expressly tailor-made on request It took about 800 hours of work to build each piece so the price is quite steep and it depends on the specific requirements of the engraving and of the accessories requested by the customer. On the receiver we can see the engravings in the English style andwith fine hunting scenes different in each weapon. They are three twins, in manufacturing and for the wood which is a piece of precious Turkish walnut briar to reproduce this wood on three rifles is cut and opened like a book, so the briar can have the same grain in every stock. He presented us a triplet model, produced some years ago.They are three shotguns of Desenzani brand, with Holland & Holland system tailor-made based on customer request. In the Fucili d'Autore area of HIT Show we met Marco Barbetti one of the owners and members of the Laboratorio Armi Desenzani of Brescia, one of the most famous and historic armories In Brescia and perhaps of Italy since 1910.
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