Issac Hollis & Sons Double 9.3x74R

[93marlin]

I have two double rifles. Both are pre-1900. I also own a commercial Mauser from about 1950+/-.
None have any import stamping anywhere on them.
They were also brought to the US prior to the requirement to have the importer's marking.
I'm not positive of that date after which it was a requirement, it may have been in the 1960's gun laws..

 

[rookhawk]

I have two double rifles. Both are pre-1900. I also own a commercial Mauser from about 1950+/-.
None have any import stamping anywhere on them.
They were also brought to the US prior to the requirement to have the importer's marking.
I'm not positive of that date after which it was a requirement, it may have been in the 1960's gun laws..

Two pre-1900 double rifles could have been brought in last week without import stamps. Pre-1899 antiques imported for personal use do not require the use of an FFL importer, and thus no requirement for an importer’s mark.

 

[rookhawk]

This rifle was made around d 1910-1920 best I can figure.
They were know for making “lesser” British guns to send to India and South Africa. I would assume this one went to India in its early life.

I would listen to offers on this.

Respectfully disagree with Isaac Hollis being a lesser maker. Their guns were quite high quality and on par with the other Birmingham made guns retailed by Charles Hellis, W.C. Scott, Jeffery, ANCSL, and the others.

They did cater a lot to the Indian safari market and were doing most of their production of rifles in the late 1890s on boxlock actions. Nothing mediocre about the maker, every gun judged on its own merit.

Here’s an Isaac Hollis 500 Nitro for Black I restored about ten years ago. It was in a similar state as your rifle offered for sale here when it first got to my hands.

 

[Shakka]

@rgsiii is correct. I have a dozen or more SxS shotguns or rifles from before WWll from either the UK or the continent without import stamps. Everyone of them would have been "imported" into this country before the requirement existed. I even have the detailed ordering information from Stateside buyers of a couple of the English SxS's from just before and just after WWI. The guns would have been shipped straight to their homes without import stamps.

A host of fine German shotguns and rifles were shipped or brought home following WWII. Not one of those guns will bear an import mark. They went home in footlockers and duffle bags accompanied by a form authorizing the shipment. I brought back several German guns following my assignment there at the end of 1979. Not one of them was required an import stamp. I was hardly the only American serviceman doing the same.

OK....

 

[Altitude sickness]

I’ve bought two rifles from NTO. Both looked far better in person than in his pictures. His pictures don’t have good detail. But I was very happy when I received them. He undersells them.
Buy with confidence

 

[NTO]

Thanks everyone for the interest and comments.

This one has a new home.