Cosmi Produces a Sovrapposto
Cosmi is now offering a new over/under by Italian design legend Ivano Tanfoglio.
Doug Tate is an Editor at Large for Shooting Sportsmanwith more than 350 articles published in the past 30 years. A British native, he attended the College of Art & Industrial Design, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has a keen eye for aesthetics, from a well-turned sentence to a well-filed gun action. He has been a longtime contributor to The Field, in the UK, and is the author of the books Birmingham Gunmakers and British Gun Engraving. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Cosmi is now offering a new over/under by Italian design legend Ivano Tanfoglio.
Ivo Fabbri, the visionary who created the company responsible for the world’s most expensive shotguns, died May 8 at the age of 93.
Conceived as an exhibition-grade piece based on London being a world trading hub, the gun is inlaid with gold, silver and copper—representing the metals that were traded as currency.
Since the late 1990s Krieghoff has commissioned each year a special engraving project called “The Gun of the Year” that is unveiled at IWA OutdoorClassics, in Nuremberg.
British artisanal knifemaker Salient Knives is introducing into the US a collection of knives designed for the hunting, shooting and outdoor markets.
Purdey has created a commemorative 20-bore over/under that pays homage to Athol Purdey’s efforts.
Now new from the company for 2022 comes a sidelever hammergun and a sidelever over/under.
For only the second time the German firm has added spacious sideplates to one of its K-20s that have extended the area for engraved tableaus to mural proportions.
A.A. Brown has added an over/under to its portfolio called the ABAS Series 8.
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Italian gunmaker Beretta has created the Ultraleggero (or “Ultralight”)—a light over/under.
Sportarm worked closely with AyA and British importer ASI to develop the Dominus.