# 6983 - DUMOULIN & DELEYE

.375 H & H Magnum double rifle completed in 1972 for renown author R. L. Wilson. Select French walnut stock with cheek pad, drop points, fine 4-point checkering, leather covered pad. Rebates on top and bottom of  frame with exceptional wood to metal fits. Folding leaf rear sights, adjustable trigger. 

Used by Mr. R. L. Wilson on safari hunts in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Ethiopia, and the Central African Republic where big game was taken including several cape buffalo, two elephant, leopards, and lions. 

Relief chiseled sidelocks with Diana, goddess of the hunt along side fallen stag, right sidelock depicts Mr. R. L. Wilson after a successful lion hunt. Elephant hunting scene on bottom of frame surrounded by a fine gold wire inlay boarder, profuse scroll work on all surfaces of the receiver and wedges of scroll engraving on barrels. Gold inlay stars and gold inlay bald eagle on top of breech, large gold inlay cape buffalo on trigger guard.

Engraved by six master engravers; Alvin A. White, who scroll engraved the trigger guard, Denise Thirton who engraved the Nimshke-style scroll on the forend mounts and pistol grip cap, K. C. Hunt engraved and relief chiseled the lock plates, Hans Obiltschnig engraved a low relief rhinoceros on the gold shield, the barrels were engraved in two styles of scroll by Rene Delcour, and Phil Grifnee.  This collaboration of master engravers resulted in the most diverse styles of English, Germanic, Belgian, and American engraving and engraving styles found on any gun.

14 3/4", 9 lbs., 10 oz.

$ 45,000.00