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I’m curious to know whether anybody has encountered another Holland & Holland double rifle similar to this one. I’m not asking about H&H hammer rifles from the black powder era. I’m asking about any nitro rifles built on this toplever back action hammer pattern. I don’t recall seeing another just like this one.

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I would guess it was from an era of transition between hammer firearms and "hammerless". And possibly a client wanted good old fashioned hammers on his rifle.

Read somewhere where a maker made a batch or hammer rifles for some time.

Now if many people today still want a shotgun or rifle with hammers, how much more prevalent would that have been in the early 1900's.

Bloody lovely rifle, case and excellent acquisition.

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John aka NitroX

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