A FINE .450 (3¼IN. BLACK POWDER) D.B. HAMMER RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 6202, Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks with dolphin hammers, percussion fences, best foliate-scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip, horn pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and engraved heel- and toe-plates, sling-eyes, the steel barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights | Christie's

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A FINE .450 (3¼IN. BLACK POWDER) D.B. HAMMER RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 6202, Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks with dolphin hammers, percussion fences, best foliate-scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip, horn pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and engraved heel- and toe-plates, sling-eyes, the steel barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights

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A FINE .450 (3¼IN. BLACK POWDER) D.B. HAMMER RIFLE BY HOLLAND & HOLLAND, No. 6202, Jones patent rotary-underlever, rebounding backlocks with dolphin hammers, percussion fences, best foliate-scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip, horn pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and engraved heel- and toe-plates, sling-eyes, the steel barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights
Weight 8lb. 13½oz., 14 1/8in. stock, 28in. barrels, Black Powder proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case

拍品专文

The maker's have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in the early 1880s. It appears to have been relatively little used