Spring Sale of Fine Sporting Arms - 162 Lots

J. PURDEY

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Start price: £3,500

Estimated price: £3,500 - £5,000

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J. PURDEY


A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN, Ser No. 15664

The lockplates inset with cocking-indicators, articulated front-trigger, best bouquet and fine foliate-scroll engraving, bright coin finish, cocking-indicators, well-figured stock), the chopper-lump barrels with game-rib engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London. Made of Sir Joseph Whitworths Fluid Pressed Steel

London nitro proof In a brass-mounted oak and leather case for a pair

Weight 6lb. 9oz., 14¾” stock, 30” barrels, approx. plain & modified chokes, 2½” chambers

Reproved for nitro

Proof .729, Readings .739 .739, Walls 23, 26

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed the following details after this gun:

No. 15664

Completed: 26th August 1896

For: T.C. Gurney

Description: A hammerless ejector game gun

Notes:

Noted in the 1920s as property of the Earl of Buckinghamshire

March 1953: Given by the Earl of Buckinghamshire to T.E. Farrar

Sect 2 of the Firearms Act – Shotgun Certificate required to purchase this item.