Lot 150
150
A 20-BORE BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMER GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 12245, toplever, rebounding sidelocks, percussion fences, elongated bottomstrap, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock with ventilated recoil-pad, the Whitworth-steel barrels (shortened) with game-rib

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A 20-BORE BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMER GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 12245, toplever, rebounding sidelocks, percussion fences, elongated bottomstrap, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock with ventilated recoil-pad, the Whitworth-steel barrels (shortened) with game-rib
Weight 5lb. 5½oz., 13¾in. pull, 26in. barrels, both cyl., 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof

Lot Essay

The gun was completed circa 1886 and its specifications included a third grip, 30in. barrels with choke bores and hammers 'nearly below the line of sight'.

The rebound-clearances are insufficient and should be corrected before the gun is used

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