Lot Essay
Purdey's have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in September 1935 as a lightweight incorporating nickel-steel barrels. It appears to have been little used
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A FINE LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 24918, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, boldly-figured stock, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with semi-sunken game-rib
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A FINE LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 24918, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, boldly-figured stock, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with semi-sunken game-rib
Weight 6lb. 2oz., 14¾in. stock, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & ¾ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case
Weight 6lb. 2oz., 14¾in. stock, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & ¾ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case