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Piotti King No. One, 20 ga., Best Gun, Sidelock Ejector, Oscar Granetti engraved, 99%
Guns International #: 103204572 Seller's Inventory #: 109-25
Category: Piotti 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: 14
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 ** Piotti King No. One, Sidelock Ejector, Best Gun 20 Ga., 27” bls. Oscar Granetti engraved, 99% New. This gun is featured with a 40 minute video at rogerrule, on YouTube, “Special Guns with Roger Rule,” Episode 34.
F.lli Piotti King Number One is Piotti’s sidelock sxs,designed as an improved Holland & Holland Royal SLE action featuring Master Engraver Oscar Granetti’s famous scroll and bouquet pattern engraving, signed by him. Other Features include 20 Ga., 2 ¾” chambers, single trigger, full English styling – Straight-hand stock, splinter forend, and checkered butt with factory case.
Barrels are Boeler steel, choked left (IC), right (M); and have hand-filed matted swamped rib separating the deep rust blue barrels with silver bead front sight.
Metal: This Piotti is standard with traditional features of the highest quality gun with beaded fences, chopper lump chrome-lined barrels, automatic ejectors, H&H high-grade double seared 7-pin sidelocks with single Boss-type non-selective trigger, H&H Southgate ejectors, intercepting sears, bushed strikers (with locking screws), gas escape valves, and manual safety (to give the shooter control). There are a total of five locking screws. These are features generally found on Boss's, Purdey's and Holland & Holland Royal grade guns which new cost between 100K and 200K!
Finish is Piotti’s beautiful polished color-case hardened receiver which enhances the master engraving which is the finest H&H ancanthus scroll hand engraving by the Italian master engraver, Granetti, signed on the trigger guard. The entire receiver has full engraving with intricate scrolls and three clusters of flowers on each sidelock and four clusters on the bottom metal. The trigger guard is rolled for the right hand shooter. The top lever is checkered for either hand and inlaid with a gold crown. At the base of the receiver on the left side is a gold inlay of the maker’s name, “F.lli Piotti” and a gold Piotti shield with crown inlaid into the bottom of the forearm.
Other Inscriptons: The maker’s name is inscribed on the side of the left barrel.
Hidden from view: The water table shows “King 1” the serial number, the maker’s name, Boeler ECN 750 (steel), PSF, and Finito with Italian proof marks. The barrels flat shows the serial number, PSF and Finito with Italian proof marks, AT (for 1988). Underneath and out of view, on the left barrel chamber of both barrels, the importer, WLM (William Larken Moore) Westlake, CA Mod King 1.
Stock: Carpathian walnut (a high quality English walnut) buttstock has deep rich warm brown tones with nicely contrasting dark streaks and some fiddleback figure which matches perfectly with the forearm. The hand checkering is generous wrapping around the forearm and coming together top and bottom on the stock. It is executed flawlessly by hand in point pattern, 32 lpi – with fine single borders and the forearm has a diamond pattern inlaid with the gold Piotti crest, and a delicately inlaid blued Anson forearm release in the forearm tip escutcheon.
Measurements: 1 1/2” x 2 1/8” x 14 5/16" with 1/8” cast off, over checkered butt. Weight 6 lbs 6 oz. Includes maker’s leather trunk case with sewn-in label and accessories.
Condition:
The pleasing figure and great color of the Carpathian Walnut look stunningly rich with the color cased hardened frame and deep blue barrels. The blue remains 99%, wood at 99%, and checkering is 100%. The bores are “as new” and the barrels remain tight on face and ring like chimes. Lockup feels like shutting a vault door.
The MSRP of the Piotti King model was $42,800 as of November 2019. Add $3,600 for 20 gauge, and $2,030 for leather case bringing the grand total to $48,430.00
Priced here to sell: $24,950.00 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 $100 to buyer’s FFL, payment by MO, certified check , wire transfer or personal check with wait for validation.
About the Engraver, Oscar Granetti: In the book, The Italian Gun, by Smith and Morrow, the authors write when addressing Piotti’s guns:
“The customer may choose an engraver; however, Piotti has had a lifelong relationship with master engraver Granetti who has been working full time for Piotti for 35 years. Today, he engraves most of the King guns.”
This King Number One was engraved by Oscar Granetti in 1988, and is simply signed “Granetti” on the right side of the trigger guard.
About the Gumaker: Fratelli (Brothers) Piotti, founded in 1961 by two brothers, Araldo and Faustino, and located via F.Cinelli, 10/12 – 25063 Gardone, Italy, in the pantheon of the world’s best gun makers in Italy. They are widely respected not only as one of Italy’s top gunmakers, but one of the world’s top gunmakers.
According to the Blue Book of Gun Values, “Fratelli Piotti is one of the world’s premier gunmakers. Their long guns meet the highest standards of craftsmanship.”
The production at Fratelli Piotti is limited to a small number of handcrafted, best quality, double barrel shotguns and rifles, approximately 100 per year.
In the book, The Italian Gun, quoted above, the authors asked William Larkin Moore (famous sidelock shotgun dealer of all makes): Is a Piotti better than the Purdey?” Moore qualified his answer, but after a simple explanation, stated, “…it’s my opinion that a Piotti is perfectly acceptable alternative to a Purdey that’s made today. In fact, I’d rank Piotti as one of the best gunmakers in the world, the others, of course, being Purdey and Holland & Holland in London, Fabbri, F.lli Rizzini, Luciano Bosis in Italy.”
Later in the book, in the chapter entitled F.lli Rizzini, the authors state, “No Italian gunmaker is the best. There are three: Ivo Fabbri, F.lli Piotti and F.lli Rizzini (p.156).
What makes Piotti’s guns so exceptional? Each action is fashioned from a solid billet of Boehler steel in the House of Fratelli Piotti with traditional tools using the building method that has been the same for the past two centuries. Like F.lli Rizzini, Piotti’s mainspring is made of specially-imported Belgium steel.
Craftsmanship is to the most exacting specifications, assuring every gun meets the most demanding standards. This predominance of the handmade comes out magnificent in each single detail, from the 7-pin sidelocks to the inletting of the wood. The action and tang are integral. The locks and barrels are made in house.
Piotti only uses the super stars of engravers.
For all models, the action size, gun proportions and weight are proportional to the gauge. The quality of the shaping, checkering, stock, action and barrel-work even exceeds the standards achieved by the great London gunmakers prior to WWII.
Price: $24,950.00