Lot 32
32
The Property of E. LLOYD, Esq.
A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 13164, best bouquet and scroll engraving, boldly-figured stock with butt-plate, cast-on for the left shoulder, Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-rib

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A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 13164, best bouquet and scroll engraving, boldly-figured stock with butt-plate, cast-on for the left shoulder, Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-rib
Weight 6lb. 8oz., 14in. pull, 28in. barrels, both approx. cyl., 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (right bore-dimension marginal)
In a leather case
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The gun was completed circa 1889 as a non-ejector gun. It was converted to ejector by the makers in 1916, and Purdey's subsequently shortened the barrels to 28in. in 1922. The gun was entirely re-built and restocked by the makers in 1960
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