Details of Lot 290
PIOTTI
A 20-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN, NO. 7783

30-inch chopper-lump barrels with 3-inch chambers, about 1/4 and 1/2 choke borings, the frame, locks and top lever engraved with fine scrollwork surrounded by ribbons and flowering roses, the maker's name signed on the action base, articulated front trigger, 14 1/2-inch highly figured stock including leather covered recoil pad, slightly cast-on for the left shoulder, 6lb. 2oz., Italian nitro proof, in its brassbound leather case
S2

The proof code indicates that the gun was built in 2003.
Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns
Sotheby's, London
10 December 2014
Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply