Lot 101S2
A pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 15732/3 In their brass-mounted oak and leather case (handle and straps replaced)
28 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£10,000 - £15,000
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A pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 15732/3
Toplevers, ribs and forends engraved '1' and '2', with selective automatic or manual safeties, best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, cocking-indicators, much hardening-colour, articulated front-triggers, well-figured stocks (No. 1 replacement and with hairline crack to right lower horn), No. 2 with wood extension, the chopper-lump barrels (No. 2 replaced by maker) with game-ribs engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London, England
Weights 6lb. 11oz. (No. 1) & 6lb. 13½oz. (No. 2), 14½in. stock (No. 1) and 14½in. pull (14¼in. stock) (No. 2), 29in. barrels, approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) & ⅜ & ⅝ (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, London nitro proof
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case (handle and straps replaced)
Weights 6lb. 11oz. (No. 1) & 6lb. 13½oz. (No. 2), 14½in. stock (No. 1) and 14½in. pull (14¼in. stock) (No. 2), 29in. barrels, approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) & ⅜ & ⅝ (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, London nitro proof
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case (handle and straps replaced)
Footnotes
Offered with the original No. 2 gun barrels, no longer fitting to gun.
The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in November 1896 for a Cecil King, with the note "Screw by the side of shoulder of lever to make safeties auto or non automatic", and that they rebarrelled the No. 2 gun in 1990, and that they believe the restocking was carried out by them, although not entered into the dimension book