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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1914; the barrel length is original
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, NO. 20838/9
Best bouquet and scroll engraving with slight traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, highly-figured replacement stocks with leather-covered recoil-pads, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 15½oz. (No.1) and 7lb. 2½oz. (No.2), 15½in. pulls, 29½in. barrels, choke approx. ¼ & .5/8 (No.1) and I.C. & .5/8 (No.2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
Best bouquet and scroll engraving with slight traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, highly-figured replacement stocks with leather-covered recoil-pads, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 15½oz. (No.1) and 7lb. 2½oz. (No.2), 15½in. pulls, 29½in. barrels, choke approx. ¼ & .5/8 (No.1) and I.C. & .5/8 (No.2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof