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BRACE OF BOSS & COMPANY SIDELOCK EJECTOR SINGLE

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:10,000.00 USD Estimated At:20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
BRACE OF BOSS & COMPANY SIDELOCK EJECTOR SINGLE
TRIGGER GAME GUNS WITH CASE AND ACCESSORIES. Cal. 12 Ga., 2 1/2". S# 4336 and 4387. Gun number “4387” appears to be built to pair with number “4336”, made in 1895. “4336” Is gold inlaid “1” on top lever, rear portion of rib and on forend release lever. Gun “4387” is numbered “2” in the same places. Gun “1” has newly Birmingham made dovetailed barrels fitted with narrow swamped game rib which is engraved with Boss’s St. James Street address. Barrels of gun “2” match well, but have somewhat broader rib. Gun “1” stamped with 1961 Birmingham nitro proofs and gun “2” with 1974 London proofs and “SLEEVED”. Boss number is on bottom of rear lump. Both guns have coin finished square backed sidelock actions with automatic safeties, bushed strikers, gold line tumbler end cocking indicators and Boss single non selective triggers. These triggers are unusual in that they are set diagonally across trigger plates and have fairly deep finger blades with extreme cant for right hand shooter. Actions are filed with somewhat rounded beads and very unusual for Boss, fluted fences in the style of Rigby or Grant. Actions and locks engraved with usual Boss “best” rose and scroll by the noted Sumner’s of London and have 15 rose bouquets. “BOSS’S PATENT EJECTOR” is on each side of actions and “Boss & Co” is in scrolled ribands on each lockplate. Trigger plates engraved with Boss’s single trigger patent number. Small bow trigger guards are also scroll engraved and have semi-relief serial numbers at grips. Well matched nicely marbled and lightly figured European walnut straight grip buttstocks measure 14 3/8" over black leather covered pads. Stocks are finished in traditional style with drop points, point pattern checkering and vacant gold ovals. Matching splinter Boss ejector forends have forward pivoting lever releases. Gun “1”: left - .727 restriction: .039 (full). Right - .727 restriction: .012 (lt mod). Minimum wall thickness: left - .029, right - .032. DAH: 2 1/2". DAC: 1 5/8". Cast slightly off. WEIGHT: 6 lbs. 11 oz. Gun “2”: left - .729 restriction: .027 (Imod). right - .729 restriction: .020 (mod). Minimum wall thickness: left - .029, right - .030. DAH: 2". DAC: 1 1/2". Cast slightly off. WEIGHT: 6 lbs. 9 oz. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: vintage makers oak and leather two-gun case with brass corners and central medallion, is embossed “E. L. T. de M.” on top. Interior is lined in scarlet cloth and has large Boss paper label in lid. Accessories include the long end of a 2 piece cleaning rod (short handle missing), rosewood handled turnscrew, rectangular oil bottle and pull through field cleaning kit. CONDITION: fine, as reconditioned. Bbls. retain nearly all of a “best” London black. Actions cleaned to coin finish, but engraving remains mostly clear with slight wear on beads. Top levers and trigger guards reblacked and retain nearly all of that black. Buttstocks nicely refinished with checkering recut. Both forends are newly made and exhibit factory quality workmanship and match butts well. Case leather is considerably darkened with numerous marks and rubs. Older replaced handle is good. Interior cloth is good to fine with some areas reblocked to better fit these guns. Label is considerably foxed, lightly soiled. A pair of Bosses ready to be enjoyed for the next hundred years. (01-17687/MGM) & (01-17688/MGM155). BOTH ANTIQUE. $20,000-30,000.