BY JAMES PURDEY, 314½ OXFORD STREET, LONDON, NO. 3852 FOR 1844

细节

A Fine Cased 50-Bore D.B. Percussion Sporting Rifle
By James Purdey, 314½ Oxford Street, London, No. 3852 for 1844
With browned twist barrels cut with eight grooves, sighted to 150 yards and signed on the rib, case-hardened patent breeches engraved with foliage at the centre and each with platinum line and pierced platinum plug, blued nipples stamped respectively 'R' and 'L', case-hardened scroll engraved tang, signed scroll engraved serial numbered locks each with blued safety-catch in front of the hammer (detents removed), lacquered figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, scroll engraved blued iron mounts including butt-plate and trigger-guard with chequered spur, engraved case-hardened patch-box cover and trigger-plate, iron sling mounts, original serial numbered brass-mounted ramrod, and nearly all its browned, blued, and case-hardened colour: in original lined and fitted brass-bound mahogany case with numerous accessories including two original serial numbered bullet moulds, two powder-flasks, and directions for loading, the lid with trade label, flush-fitting carrying handle, and circular escutcheon, London proof marks
281/8in. (71.5cm.) barrels

出版

L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, p. 157

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

Originally sold 5 August 1844 for £68.5.0.

A typewritten note signed by the late owner and sold with this lot reads: 'This rifle belonged to and was made for the Chisholm of Chisholm and came from Chisholm Castle, Scotland. I never met him but was told by the gunmaker in Inverness from whom I bought it that he was a very tall strong man who had a great liking for muzzle loading guns and rifles all of which he kept in perfect working order...'

The original owner is likely to have been Duncan Macdonell Chisholm (1811-59) of Erkless Castle, Inverness, who served in the Coldstream Guards, and became chief of Clan Chisholm in 1838