Guns International #: 102796695
Seller's Inventory #: 1X11531

Category - Browning Belgium Rifles - Olympian - Browning Belgium Rifles

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Browning Belgium Rifles - Olympian
Browning Belgium Rifles

BROWNING OLYMPIAN GRADE MEDIUM GAME RIFLE 264 WINMAG ENGRAVED BY BAERTEN, LEGIERS & GRECO

Description:
BROWNING OLYMPIAN GRADE MEDIUM GAME RIFLE 264 WINMAG ENGRAVED BY BAERTEN, LEGIERS & GRECO
22" Lightweight barrel...LOP 12 3/4...Weight 7 lbs. 9 oz. ...

PROVENANCE: Rod Fuller Estate Collection.
CONDITION: Excellent

There are 2" triangles of scrolled Acanthus engraving at sides of breech end. Coined finished Mauser action has gold-plated trigger. Action is engraved with well cut, shaded, Acanthus scroll, as background to game scenes appropriate to caliber; a bugling elk is on left side of receiver ring, and a running pronghorn is on right. Floorplate depicts a portrait of a mule deer buck peering through branches with large birch tree in background, and a portrait of an approaching grizzly bear is on trigger guard bow. Bugling elk is unsigned. Pronghorn is signed "Legiers" where covered by wood. Bear is signed with initials "RG" (Reno Greco). Mule deer is signed "J. Baerten". Lightweight round bbl is marked with Browning Arms Co with St. Louis and Montreal addresses on left, and with caliber, SN and "MADE IN BELGIUM" on right side. Gold is excellent with a few light marks. There slight operating marks on bolt. Bore is excellent. Mechanically crisp. Near new, with little evidence of having been fired, retaining essentially all it's finishes on wood and metal, with only the lightest of handling marks.

Wonderful, flame figured and full length fiddle figured nicely banded claro Walnut gloss finished rosewood capped pistol grip stock is fitted with composition Browning buttplate. Stock features Monte Carlo comb with swept right hand cheekpiece, single recoil bolt, and rosewood forend tip with white line spacer. Matching flared grip cap has inset gold diamond on bottom. Closely spaced checkering at grip and forend is flanked by relief carved scrolling acanthus with stipple shaded background. Sling studs are in forend and on toe line... LOP 13 3/4". Checkering and carving have lightly darkened. Wood tests NEGATIVE for salt.

Tan vinyl Browning case lined in faun faux fur, and contained a key. Case is excellent on exterior, fur is excellent. Some of the brown canvas is detaching from lid.

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Price: $15,995.00