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Highly important cased pair of high art Belgian-made H. Dumoulin & Fils-Milmort bolt action rifles

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:12,500.00 USD
Highly important cased pair of high art  Belgian-made H. Dumoulin & Fils-Milmort bolt  action rifles
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Highly important cased pair of high art Belgian-made H. Dumoulin & Fils-Milmort bolt action rifles, 30-06 caliber and 300 Win Magnum, 24” round barrel on the 30-06 and 28” barrel on the 300 Win Magnum; engraved stainless steel receivers, custom checkered, special graining wood stocks with Monte Carlo cheek pieces, both in like new condition, #s 1 of 100 gold inlaid on both guns’ barrels at the breech and presented to the late John Bowden Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard M. Nixon. (While he was Governor of Texas, Connally was a passenger in the car in which President Kennedy was assassinated and himself wounded in the shooting). Both guns are like new in condition showing approx. 99%+ original blue on the barrels. On the 30-06 rifle, the barrel address is done in gold inlay, the receiver is highly engraved with the United States Marine Corp. insignia inlaid on the top front of the receiver in gold, engraved scene of the flag raising at Iwo Jima on the top rear of the receiver, and Marine riflemen moving up Mount Siribachi engraved on the floor plate. The stock