AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, NO. 24269/70

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AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, NO. 24269/70
The fences carved with shamrocks, the best bouquet and scroll engraving of an unusual non-standard pattern, the undersides of the action-bodies engraved with cornucopia amid bold scrollwork, with some hardening-colour, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, highly-figured stocks with leather-covered recoil-pads, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 4oz., 14¾in. pulls, 25in. barrels, approx. ¼ & full choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof

Lot Essay

The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1931. The guns were built for the father of the present owner and the unusual specification was probably designed for the pursuit of woodcock and snipe on the family estates in County Monaghan. Very unusually, the front trigger on each gun fires the left (full choke) barrel

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