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1273
$23,575.00

*CASED PAIR OF SPECTACULAR ARRIETA MODEL 875 CUSTOM ORDERED DBL BBL SHOTGUNS. Cal. 12 ga. SN 37421 & 37422. Fabulous pair of dbls with 28″ bbls with both sets choked IMP-MOD/IMP-CYL. Both have tapered, smooth, concave ribs with sgl brass bead, ejectors with dbl chopper lumps & dbl triggers with front triggers articulated. They are equipped with assisted opening feature. Bbls are numbered “1” & “2” at breech end of rib with corresponding numbers on forearms & opening levers. They have coin finished receivers, lockplates, trigger guards & forend irons and are spectacularly engraved with extremely fine foliate & floral arabesque pattern engraving with two ducks on left lockplate with two flowing gold ribbons & two pheasants on right lockplates with two flowing gold ribbons. There is a flower spray at front end of lockplates with three gold blossoms on each fence with gold wire borders around everything. All of the birds, ribbons & flowers are in extremely fine detailed raised gold. Opening levers have a raised gold rooster on left side of thumb tabs & have a large raised gold letter “B” with a raised gold number on pivots. They also have “SAFE” in raised gold on the top tangs & serial numbers are in raised gold on bottom tangs. Trigger bows have a raised gold circle with a dbl ended, raised gold fleur-de-lis with “AC” on side. Receiver, lockplates & all appendages are full coverage engraved with extremely high quality, very fine, foliate & floral arabesque pattern engraving. Bottom of receivers has the company name in a ribbon. Fences are backed with an extremely fine raised rib. Forend tips & all forend iron have gold wire borders with a raised gold duck & a raised gold number. Both guns are mounted with presentation quality English walnut with checkered splinter forearms & straight stocks with raised teardrop side panels, 14-1/2″ over skip-lined checkered butts. Both stocks have large gold initials “RWB” on bottom. Accompanied by a chocolate brown, green felt-lined trunk case compartmented for all pieces of both guns. Also accompanied by their certificates of proof dated “22 November 1991″. GUN #1: Drop at heel: 2-1/4″, drop at comb: 1-3/8″. Bore restrictions: left – .031, right – .008. Wall thickness: left – .027, right – .030. Bore diameter: left – .697, right – .721. Weight: 6 lbs. 13.12 oz. GUN #2: Drop at heel: 2-1/4″, drop at comb: 1-3/8”. Bore restrictions: left – .031, right – .009. Wall thickness: left – .032, right – .027. Bore diameter: left – .697, right – .719. Weight: 6 lbs. 13.76 oz. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Near new, retain virtually all of their orig factory finish to both metal & wood. Gun #1 has a small area of very fine surface discoloration on bottom tang behind trigger bow and a cleaned area on right fence with some minor surface discoloration & very fine pitting that is noticeable only under magnification. Gun #1 has a 1/4″ hairline and small chip back of top tang, otherwise all wood is sound with a few scattered minor handling & use marks in surface & retains most of their beautiful oil finish. Mechanics are crisp, brilliant shiny bores. Case is near new. 4-57493 JR147 (20,000-35,000)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2006
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