Lot Essay
The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1939 as a lightweight weighing 6lb. 4oz.
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 25731, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, boldly-figured replacement stock, cast-on for the left shoulder, the chopper-lump barrels with semi-sunken game-rib
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A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 25731, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, boldly-figured replacement stock, cast-on for the left shoulder, the chopper-lump barrels with semi-sunken game-rib
Weight 6lb. 8½oz., 14¾in. stock, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & 5/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case
Weight 6lb. 8½oz., 14¾in. stock, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & 5/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case