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A fine Ken Hunt-engraved 12-bore single-trigger sidelock ejector live pigeon gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 27177 In a leather motor case with J. Purdey & Sons trade-label image 1
A fine Ken Hunt-engraved 12-bore single-trigger sidelock ejector live pigeon gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 27177 In a leather motor case with J. Purdey & Sons trade-label image 2
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A fine Ken Hunt-engraved 12-bore single-trigger sidelock ejector live pigeon gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 27177
In a leather motor case with J. Purdey & Sons trade-label

27 May 2021, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £25,250 inc. premium

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A fine Ken Hunt-engraved 12-bore single-trigger sidelock ejector live pigeon gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 27177

The treble-grip action-body with concealed third-bite, best bold foliate-scroll engraving, the maker's name in a scrolling banner, virtually-full hardening-colour, oak-leaf fences, side-clips, cocking-indicators, rolled-edge trigger-guard, the well-figured stock, with pistolgrip, horn pistolgrip-cap and leather-covered recoil-pad, beaver-tail forend, the chopper-lump barrels engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London, England with matt flat-rib and intermediate bead-sight
Weight 7lb. 13oz., 14½in. pull (13½in. stock), 29in. barrels, approx. both full choke, 2¾in. chambers, London nitro proof
In a leather motor case with J. Purdey & Sons trade-label

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed the gun was completed in March 1964 for George Suttle as a single-trigger hammerless ejector trap gun with large scroll engraving by Ken Hunt

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