Holland & Holland factory records
Who holds this maker's production records today, whether a serial table exists at all, and what it costs to have the archive read them.
Holland & Holland holds its own historical records and answers enquiries by serial number, the same model as Purdey and the other London gunmakers. The ledgers record the original build and the order, so the answer is documentary rather than estimated.
Can a serial number date a Holland & Holland?
From the serial number alone, generally no — and that is the honest answer rather than a gap in this site. There is no published table to compare the number against, so any year you find online for this maker comes from a secondary reconstruction, and those are exactly as reliable as their author.
Dating then rests on what is on the gun: the maker's marking and address, the model and its catalogued period, proof marks and their era, patent dates, and the manufacturer's own model history.
The lookup covers only makers that publish their own browsable chart — and it says which, and cites the threshold behind every result.
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