| Stephen L. Billeb |
Custom Ithaca Flues |
16ga, 2 3/4" |
$3795 |
| 28" SxS barrels with flat matted rib and twin white beads choked cylinder & |
| improved modified. 14 1/2" pull from front trigger to skeleton steel buttplate- |
| --checkered within. 1 1/4" - 2 1/4" drop. 1/2" cast-off. Fully figured European |
| walnut stocks with snap-fastened splinter forend---with reshaped forend |
| iron and without the ungainly screw, straight English grip with lengthened |
| bottom tang, and extensive fleur-de-lys borderless checkering. |
| Casehardened, recontoured action with curved rear edge and hand made |
| safety with detail coverage, very fine scroll engraving on casehardened |
| action and buttplate by Jim Blair. Weight: 6lbs, 12oz. New condition as |
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Steven Dodd Hughes |
Custom
Bertuzzi |
20ga, 2 3/4" |
$19,750 |
| 27" SxS chopper-lump barrels with flat matted rib and ivory bead front sight |
| choked improved cylinder & modified. 15" pull from mechanical single |
| trigger. 1 1/2" - 2 1/4" drop. 3/8" cast-off. Highly figured California English |
| walnut stocks with Anson-pushbutton-release splinter forend, teardrops, |
| straight English grip, classic point-pattern checkering with mullered borders- |
| --wrapping completely around the entire wrist---and solid black Old English |
| recoil pad. Sculpted, Turnbull-casehardened, bar-action sidelock with gold- |
| line cocking indicators, automatic ejectors, bushed firing pins with retaining |
| setscrews, manual top tang safety with SAFE inlaid in gold, and beaded- |
| edge long-tang triggerguard. Classic English rose & scroll engraving by |
| Michael Dubber. Weight: 6lbs, 10oz. Barreled action built 1980. Shotgun |
| completed 1999. In nearly new condition, retaining all of its original finishes, |
| excellent bores, tight, and with strong ejectors in perfect time. Signed with a |
| gold-inlaid SDH touchmark behind the trigger and by Michael Dubber in |
| front. In leather trunk case with cleaning accessories. On the cover of and |
| subject of an article in the ACGG journal, GUNMAKER. Pictured in Double |
| Guns / Custom Gunsmithing by Steven Dodd Hughes, 2007, page 163. |
| Exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Three Centuries of |
| Tradition---The Renaissance of Sporting Arms in America", July - Oct 2003; |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Jan - April 2004; Conner Prairie Museum, |
| June - Aug 2004; and covered in the exhibition's book, pages 160-1. |
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R. G.
Owen, |
Boxlock
Ejector |
12ga, 2
5/8" |
$15,850 |
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28 1/2"
SxS barrels of Roechling's Spezial steel, with slightly-concave matted |
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rib
inlaid in gold: R G Owen, Sauquoit, NY, choked extra full & extra full.
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13
7/8"pull from front trigger to striated wood butt. 1 5/8" - 2 3/8" drop.
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1/2"
cast-off. Fully figured walnut stock with straight English grip, Anson- |
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pushbutton-release splinter forend, classic point-pattern checkering
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discreetly incorporating Owen's signature arrowheads, vacant gold oval and
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gold
monogram FWH inlaid into forend. Scalloped, rounded action with |
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Greener
crossbolt, jeweled internal surfaces, fully engraved with English rose |
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scroll, enhanced with deeply chiseled oak-leaf fences and rose bouquets
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inlaid
in multiple colors of gold. Automatic safety with SAFE in gold. |
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Barreled
action built in Germany in 1927. Discrete "MH" mark beside serial
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number
amongst the proofmarks on both barrels and action---actual maker of |
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the
barrelled action? Weight: 6lbs, 11oz. Tight. Mirror bright bores. Barrels
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ring
like chimes. 99% blue. 60% case colors. With some documentation, a
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double-tiered leather trunk case for this gun and a (no longer present)
double rifle. |
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