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A FINE AND ORNATE KEN HUNT GOLD-ENCRUSTED 12-BORE (2¾IN) SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, NO. 28147
The action-body, lockplates and furniture heavily gold-encrusted and damascened with ancient and contemporary motifs, the underside of the action-body gold-encrusted with the head of the Green Man amid gold foliage, the fences encrusted with female demi-figures, the toplever with the head of a lion amid thunderbolts, the triggerguard with a head in sunburst, with additional finely carved and engraved motifs including a Roebuck, the head of a retriever, stars, chequerwork and exotic foliage, the forend-iron, breech-ends and muzzles of the barrels decorated en suite, the whole on a deep blued ground, the triggerplate signed 'K.C. Hunt ENG. 78', well-figured stock, the chopper-lump barrels with game-rib
Weight 6lb. 15½oz., 14¾in. stock, 27in. barrels, both approx. full choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof
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