A FINE 16-BORE BAR-IN-WOOD SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, NO. 10606

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A FINE 16-BORE BAR-IN-WOOD SIDELOCK NON-EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, NO. 10606
The fences deeply carved with stylized foliage, the lockplates with protruding tumbler-pivots and integral cocking-indicators, snap underlever-cocking action, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, highly-figured stock, the Whitworth-steel barrels with game-rib
Weight 5lb. 10oz., 14in. stock, 30in. barrels, both approx. .5/8 choke, 2in. chambers, nitro reproof (right barrel-thickness below recommended minimum)

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The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1879. Bar-in-wood actions are almost invariably associated with hammer guns and it is, therefore, most unusual to find a hammerless sidelock gun so constructed, particularly by Purdey

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