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*PAIR OF ABBIATICO & SALVINELLI VENUS EXTRA GAME GUNS WITH CASE. SN 020 & 021. Cal. 20 Ga. 2-3/4″ Chambers. 27″ Chopper lump barrels are engraved “Made by Abbiatico & Salvinelli for C. E. M. Rosen” on raised narrow concave matted game ribs with “I” and “II” at breech ends. Bbl flats have Italian Nitro proofs, with SN, and “A & S” logo. Full sidelock actions feature non-automatic safeties, double triggers (front trigger articulated), nicely filed fillets, beads, and bolsters, and bushed strikers. Action and lockplates are engraved with classic tight scroll and rose motif with “Abbiatico & Salvinielli” on both lockplates. Engravers signature “B. Guldini Inc” is on trigger plates on right side of trigger guard bows. Top levers have “I” and “II” engraved. Single beaded trigger guards have scroll on bows, and SN on tangs. Well matched light honey colored slightly figured and dark streaked European walnut straight grip buttstocks measure 14-3/4″ over checkered wood butts, feature diamond grips, drop points, and 28 LPI checkering with line borders. Matching forends have Anson releases with “I” and “II” on tips. Gun number 1: Bore diameter: left -.626, right -.627. Bore restrictions: left -.022, right -.012. Wall thickness: left -.049, right -.037. Drop at heel: 2-1/16″, drop at comb: 1-5/16″. Weight: 6 lbs. 0 oz, LOP 14-3/4″. Gun no. 2: Bore diameter: left -.626, right -.627. Bore restrictions: left -.023, right -.012. Wall thickness: left -.031, right -.042. Drop at heel: 2-1/16″, drop at comb: 1-3/8″. Weight: 6 lbs. .3 oz, LOP 14-3/4″. Leather two-gun case with stitched leather corners has red cloth interior, with leather A & S label. CONDITION: Excellent, very near new, with a few minor marks on wood and metal. Breech faces show extractor wipe marks. Actions are tight. Bbls are on face. Ejectors are in time. Case has some minor scuffs in leather, and a few areas of darkening. Interior cloth and partitions are excellent. 4-38467 MGM94 (27,500-32,500)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2009
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