LONDON

What we are looking at is the product of something like 800 skilled man-hours. We start with barrel making, with forged drilled tubes, hand striking those to get the shape.Then you have the action filer. You have the lock maker. You have the ejectors in here and the triggers and the furniture here.

You then have got the woodwork of the stocking from seasoned walnut. Taking a pile of bits from all these different trades, and putting it together as a homogeneous whole and making it work is without exaggeration, an accumulation of hundreds of years of knowledge and skill, which has been passed down from master to pupil.

US$2.75