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a rifle with a wooden barrel and a wooden handlean antique silver plate with a crown on it on a wooden table
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126 - Centre-fire hunting rifle, external hammers, formerly owned …
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Estimate €2,000 - €2,500
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Centre-fire hunting rifle, external hammers, formerly owned by Amédée of Savoy-Aosta, second son of King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy: Double-barrelled, blued Damascus-style barrels with a ribbon finish, ejector, the band lightly engraved with a thunderbolt motif and signed: ‘HENRY. W. EGG. No. 1 PICCADILLY LONDON?, hallmarked and numbered underneath: ‘3797’ and ‘2’ and ‘3797’ on the fore-end; length 76 cm, calibre 16, breech plate entirely engraved with foliage; front plates, marbled and blued, entirely engraved and signed: ‘HENRY. W. EGG. LONDON?, hammers engraved in a continuous design; blued and engraved fittings in a continuous design, trigger guard numbered: ‘3797’ and ‘2’, openwork butt plate, engraved, central section quadrilled, ‘S’-shaped lever release at the front of the trigger guard; stock in veined walnut, checkered grip and fore-end, thumb rest at the rearof the silver trigger guard, rectangular with rounded corners, monogram: ‘A S’ surmounted by the royal crown; overall length 117.5 cm. (Minor damage to the wood at the joint of the forend). Dated circa 1870. Very good condition. Amédée, 1st Duke of Savoy-Aosta (1845–1890), was King of Spain for two years, under the name AmédéeI (1870–1873); on 30 May 1867, he married, in his first marriage, in Turin, Maria Victoria del Pozzo, the last heiressof an ancient noble Piedmontese family; they had three sons. Having been widowed in 1876, Amédée I remarried in 1888 to his niece, Princess Marie Laetitia Bonaparte, daughter of his sister Marie Clotilde, and had another son, Hubert (1890–1918). With the exception of his eldest son, all his children died unmarried and without issue. PROVENANCE: Victor Napoléon and his descendants.
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Auction time 11/04/2026 at 11:00 AM
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