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HOLLAND & HOLLAND A PAIR OF 16-BORE 'ROYAL' SELF-OPENING HAND-DETACHABLE SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 31776 / 7, circa 1928, 28in. sleeved nitro barrels (in 1985), ribs engraved 'HOLLAND & HOLLAND 98 NEW BOND STREET. LONDON.' and gold-inlaid '1' and '2' at the breech ends, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/4 choke, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, hand-detachable lockplates, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, rolled-edge triggerguards, best bold Royal scroll engraving, the undersides with elaborate cartouches engraved 'ROYAL SELF OPENER PATENT 1922', 14 1/2in. figured stocks (No.1 likely replacement, left overhorn springing), cast and swept towards central vision, No.1 fore-end wood with crack, weight 6lb. 12oz., in a lightweight leather motor case S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act