70 cm barrels, concave rib, this and the top side of the barrels machined in matte Damascus style, gold inlaid maker‘s name, third grip, choked 1/2 & full, ejectors, bright action, fences deeply carved with scroll and blossoms, full-coverage finely engraved scroll and foliate scroll, gold inlaid relief engraved game scenes of zebra and mane lion on the left, leopard and mountain reed buck on the right, on the action bottom an elephant bull, on the trigger guard a meerkat, pierced top lever with scroll, gold inlaid with a Cape buffalo‘s head, in the trigger guard signed „Sabatti e Bertarini“, baraction Sidelocks, intercepting sears, cocking indicators, sliding tang safety with gold inlaid „S“, mechanical single trigger (non selective), chequered blade, on the action bottom gold inlaid maker‘s name (in need of repair, two small parts missing), strikingly grained burr walnut stock, straight hand with slight swan neck, fine chequering, chequered butt end, 37 cm, long fore-end, Anson push-rod, gold inlaid maker‘s coat of arms incorporating a blank panel for monogram beneath a coronet, in a leather covered case including key, year of manufacture and Italian proof 1976, highest grad luxury gun of the well known but sadly out of business Italian makers, restored to condition 1.

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