Lot 62
62
A FINE LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE 'TWELVE-TWENTY' ASSISTED-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY C. LANCASTER, No. 17817, lightweight action-body, patent self-opening action, fluted fences, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, well-figured stock with recoil-pad, the chopper-lump barrels with game-rib

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A FINE LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE 'TWELVE-TWENTY' ASSISTED-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY C. LANCASTER, No. 17817, lightweight action-body, patent self-opening action, fluted fences, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, well-figured stock with recoil-pad, the chopper-lump barrels with game-rib
Weight 6lb., 14 1/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & 3/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof

Lot Essay

Lancaster's have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1947 for Lt. Gen. Shanker Shum Sher, Military Attaché for Pakistan at the time. It appears to have been relatively little used.

The 'Twelve-Twenty' was introduced in answer to the demand for a superlatively lightweight 12-bore game-gun and this action combines the weight of a 20-bore with exceptional sectional strength. The Grant 'Lightweight' also incorporates this W. Baker patent action. Please see also lots 65 and 164

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