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The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1921
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A 12-BORE (2¾IN) SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR PIGEON-GUN BY J. PURDEY, NO. 18249
The treble-grip action-body with side-clips, manual safe, converted to Miller single-trigger (firing the left barrel first), best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, stock with pistolgrip and recoil-pad, the body of the stock with a wooden insert, beavertail forend, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with matt rib and intermediate bead-foresight
Weight: 8lb. 5oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, approx. ½ & 7/8 choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof
The treble-grip action-body with side-clips, manual safe, converted to Miller single-trigger (firing the left barrel first), best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, stock with pistolgrip and recoil-pad, the body of the stock with a wooden insert, beavertail forend, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with matt rib and intermediate bead-foresight
Weight: 8lb. 5oz., 14 1/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, approx. ½ & 7/8 choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof
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This safe is fixed on fire