Very early engraved auto-5, good restoration?

If money wasn’t an issue. I would buy it and have it rust blued and shoot the shit out of it, of course it would have to get inline with the Holland & Holland and Purdey. And since money don’t matter that would be matching pairs in all gauges. I had the pleasure of shooting a cheap Holland & Holland. 75,000 is all, but boy was it sweet.

Yes sir 75,000 dollars

Well not really. Long story short, it wasn’t mine. I met a really nice old man many years ago, he owned his own business for 40 years, built it from the ground up, mind you he had more money then god. He was very religious and would give you the shirt off his back. He is the one that got me into skeet shooing, as we would go every weekend. As far as I can remember I never paid for a round as long as he was there, not because I didn’t insist, but because he insisted more. I think he just really liked the company. Well about 10 years later he was diagnosed with cancer and was told he had 1 month to live. So what did he do? He bought 2 things. A road king Harley Davidson and that Holland and Holland. He actually lived an additional 6 years. We spent a lot of time on the bikes and more time on the skeet field. So of course I got to shoot his gun, without asking, he just handed it to me one day and said here shoot this one. I grabbed it like it was an old auto 5 and went to town. Shot a perfect 25 with that damn thing. What a joy. I guess once in a lifetime thing.

yea that would have been awesome, but hey I got to shoot it. If I ever win the lottery I will buy one for sure.

Justin no unfortunately he did not. He died pretty quickly, I was still in the military and was on one of my many deployments, didn’t find out till I got back. Had I been here I may have gotten it. He had no kids and no wife, all the family he had was a sister that wasn’t fond of guns.

Yes I’m sure someone got a great deal. Who knows maybe a pawn shop. I’m sure his sister had no clue what it was worth.