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S.Pedretti Best Hammer Sidelock sxs, 12 Ga. engraved by Stephano Pedretti - Mint
Guns International #: 101398219 Seller's Inventory #: 06-2020
Category: Hammer Shotguns - Shotguns - Italian Double
Seller's Information
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Seller: rcrwin70
Member Since: 9/26/07
First Name: Roger
State: Hawaii
Country: United States
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
3 days
Payment Types Accepted: cashiers check or money order or pay pal plus 3%
Description:
SOLD *** S. Pedretti Best Hammer Sidelock SxS 12 Ga., engraved by Master Engraver Stephano Pedretti - Mint
Description: S. Pedretti, from Gardone, Val Trompe, Italy, a best gun -- hammer sidelock gun in a side by side double, 12 gauge choked Modified (left) and Full (right). Although the gun is in mint condition with no flaws of any kind and looks as it did the day it was made, the most outstanding feature is that it is exceptionally engraved by arguably one of the best Italian engravers, Stephano Pedretti, son of the late famous Giancarlo Pedretti. More about the engravers below.*
With 2 ¾” chambers, the 27 3/4” steel extractor barrels feature a level hand-filed rib with a single ivory bead front sight. Featuring classic double triggers with an articulated front trigger, the action locks up using the tried and true Purdey double underlugs. The breech face does not show bushed strikers since this is a hammer gun with external access to replaceable firing pins. It is coin-finished which contrasts richly with the deep blue barrels.
The right and left sidelocks are engraved in the traditional Purdey rose and scroll with full coverage, beautifully executed as expected from the master engraver. This continues on the top of the receiver, the hammers, the upper and lower tang, the trigger bow, and on the underside of the receiver surrounding a detailed game scene of a flushing woodcock. These parts are all coin finished. All screws are engraved and indexed. Two inlaid gold rings circle the chambers and the serial number, 7276, is in gold engraved on the lower tang, just enough touch of gold to see that it is a best gun.
On the top left side of the left barrel, it is inscribed, “S. Pedretti, Gardone, V.T. Italy.” There is a vital and harmonious relationship between the gunmaker and the engraver as they work in perfect unison like an Olympic ice skating pair. Stephano, following his family’s tradition of both gunmaking and engraving, solidified the relationship between gunmaker and engraver by returning to his family’s tradition of taking on both roles here, building and engraving a few guns under his own name, doing everything from his own bench. For this 12 gauge shotgun, Stephano chose the classic sidelock hammer design mating up his action with the finest barrels from F.lli Poli. As expected from a famous master engraver, the fit and finish are best quality.
As to the extra fancy Turkish walnut wood: the forend is the English splinter type with Anson push button forearm release, and buttstock is a straight-hand English grip with checkered butt. It has marblecake figure that is stunningly beautiful in color with the streaks of black and dark reddish brown intertwined. Both pieces of wood look like the came from the same blank. The fine checkering is 32 lpi with single border that looks nearly borderless. It is executed flawlessly. For the stock it is a classic point pattern coming together over the wrist and below the comb with intersecting borders. For the forearm, also a point pattern at the receiver, it is fully checkered to the tip, or nose, and shows a beautiful detail surrounding the forearm release escutcheon. This has every feature of truly a best-made hammer gun. Stock measurements are 14 ½” LOP, 1 ½” DAC, 2 ¼” DAH with 3/8” cast off. Weight of the gun is 7 lb 1 oz.
Condition: 100% wood, 100% metal, 100% checkering, bores bright and new, comes with original leather case and accessories with canvas protector.
Priced to sell at $ 9,850.00
Seller is the author of The Rifleman’s Rifle (Winchester pre-64 Model 70s) and will furnish a Letter of Provenance that this gun is from his collection. Please check out author’s feedback on ebay under rcrwin70roger. 3-day non-firing inspection for full refund, shipping is $60 to buyer’s FFL, payment by MO, certified check , wire transfer or personal check with wait for validation. For questions, call (808) 989-1863 and ask for Roger or send email.
About Stafano Pedretti:
Stephano, born in 1972 in Gardone, Val Trompe, Italy, demonstrated a love for drawing at a young age and initially desired to pursue the fine arts. At the age of fourteen he enrolled in a five-year program at the Caravaggio School of Art in Brescia to refine his drawing skills. He graduated cum laude in 1991. Fortuitously, working with his father (the late great master engraver Giancarlo Pedretti*) and in the milieu of other outstanding engravers, Stefano learned fundamental engraving techniques.
Torn between pursuing a career in the fine arts as opposed to engraving, Stephano negotiated a rather aggressive agreement with his father: Stephano would apprentice with his father for eight months and if, at the end of that term, Stephano did not believe he had the capability to rise to the highest standards of excellence, his father must send him to graduate school in art. Evidently Stefano fulfilled the pre-condition. He produced his first bulino game scene on a knife eight months later and the father and son team of Studio Pedretti began.
About Stephano’s work: One author wrote, Stephano and his father “have mastered all the known techniques and created a new generation as well. However, their game scene engravings possess a quality which is both singular and spiritual in nature, and which reveals much about their life and passion. The large scale pointers are one of their signatures today. You can feel them tremble as they hold the point. They are as alive on a gun’s sideplate as they were in real life! You can smell the ripening vegetation in the heat of the fall sun.”
Stephano’s engraving style and technique, including the ornamental style done with hammer and chisel, the bulino done with the burin and hand pressure, and the inlaying of precious metals are all of the highest order. When you caress a Pedretti engraving, you expect to feel the pulse of the dog, or the feathers of the quail and pheasant, or the hot sweat of the charging rhinoceros. On a Piotti shotgun engraved by Stephano, a setter in black and a Labrador in white exhibits the results of extraordinary skills in angling the burin to sculpt and direct the light. His work is so intricate it is as if the engraver intentionally challenged the boundaries of the steel. According to the company, Connecticut Shotguns, Inc., the few master engravers they chose to work on their A.Galazan double gun were Giancarlo Pedretti, Stephano Pedretti and Manrico Torcoli.
SOLD