Barrel length 60 cm (23.5“), stock length 35 cm (13.75“), total length 100 cm (39.5“), weight 4.2 kg, year of manufacture 1927, English & Belgian proof, condition 2. Blued demibloc barrels with wedge on the muzzle, bead front sight on ramp, additional fold-out front sight with white insert for better visibility, fixed rear sights marked with “100”, two folding leafs marked with “200” and “300” each, in the left barrel is “98. New Bond Street, London” stamped, “Holland & Holland” in the right barrel, matted quarter rib with swing mount, Zeiss “Diavari ZM 1.1-4x24 T*” riflescope, ejectors, Purdeyn nose, hand-removable Holland & Holland side locks with rear springs and catch rods, cocking indicator, marked on the inside with „Joseph Brazier - Ashes“, lock plates engraved with reptiles including mythical creatures such as basilisks and dragons, the edges of the receiver are decorated with arabesques in which the reptiles and mythical creatures are incorporated, on the side plates it says „Holland & Holland“, cocking indicator with gold line, shell with dragon engraving, underside of receiver with arabesques and the face of a mythical creature, as well as the inscription „Royal Ejector“, trigger guard engraved with arabesques and dragons and the serial number, double trigger, front trigger controls the right one Striker on, extended disc with automatic slide tang safety, the lever is blued and engraved with arabesques and has scales as a texture, inscription on the lever “Models De Luxe”, finely grained walnut stock with checkered skin, forend with Anson pushbutton, buttstock with pistol grip , pistol grip plate with an engraved face of a mythical creature on a flap, underneath a compartment (including two spare firing pins), butt stock with german cheek piece, empty monogram plate on the underside of the butt, cut end of the stock. Originally delivered to customers as recorded in the Holland & Holland database - name “Barwani” (suitable both as a family name and for the city and administrative district of Barwani). Holland & Holland was known for supplying high-quality hunting weapons to the Maharajas there in India. The present rifle was completed in 1927. Appropriate in time to the phase of Rana Ranjit Singh there (until around 1930). This served, among other things, for France during the First World War. In any case, the rifle was handed over to us with French diplomatic provenance. However, an exact and unambiguous attribution cannot be established in further detail. Technically, the double rifle was originally made in .350 - later changed to the common caliber 9.3x74R - according to Belgian proof.

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