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LOT 3575
Outstanding Cased Consecutively Numbered
Pair of Aldo Rizzini Signed, Gold Inlaid, and Game Scene Engraved Perazzi 20 Gauge DHO
Sidelock Double Barrel Shotguns
-A) Perazzi DHO Sidelock Shotgun
- Serial no. 5439, 20 gauge, 26 3/4
inch solid rib bbl., blue/coin finish,
walnut stock. Perazzi is among the
most famous names in competition
shotguns, but they are also the makers of some
of the finest game guns out there, and this set puts that on full display. Blued Special steel chopperlump barrels with a single brass
bead sight on the matted flat solid rib which is marked with a gold “I” at the base, Perazzi factory marking on the left barrel, import mark under the forend, 1968 dated Italian proofs, and 2 3/4
inch chambers with automatic ejectors. The coin finished sidelock action displays light scroll border engraving surrounding three individual game scenes. The left lockplate shows a pair of quail in flight in a mountainous scene, the right lockplate has a capercallie
cock and hen in a forested mountain scene, and the underside shows another capercallie, this time as a close-up.