拍品 35
35
A FINE .400 (BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER RIFLE BY J. PURDEY, No. 12022, 'C Quality', snap-action rotary-underlever with rear bolt, rebounding island backlocks with bolted dolphin hammers, percussion fences, gold-washed strikers, best foliate-scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, well-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved and colour-hardened pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and horn butt-plate, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights Weight 7lb. 14½oz., 13 7/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, Black Powder proof

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A FINE .400 (BLACK POWDER EXPRESS) DOUBLE-BARRELLED HAMMER RIFLE BY J. PURDEY, No. 12022, 'C Quality', snap-action rotary-underlever with rear bolt, rebounding island backlocks with bolted dolphin hammers, percussion fences, gold-washed strikers, best foliate-scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, well-figured stock with pistolgrip, engraved and colour-hardened pistolgrip-cap, cheekpiece and horn butt-plate, sling-eyes, the barrels with matt sight-rib and open-sights Weight 7lb. 14½oz., 13 7/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, Black Powder proof
In its brass-mounted oak case with miscellaneous accessories

拍品專文

Purdey's have kindly confirmed that the rifle was completed in 1885. The bolting system is a variation on the Jones patent and provides double bites with semi-closure of the underlever. The chambering is unusual for the .400 class of cartridge and would appear to be 3¼in. bottleneck