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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1923
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY,
NO. 22343/4
The fences engraved with a stylized oak-leaf motif, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, well-figured stocks with butt-plates, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 12½oz., 14¼in. pulls, 29in. barrels, all approx. ¼ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (bore-dimensions marginal)
NO. 22343/4
The fences engraved with a stylized oak-leaf motif, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, well-figured stocks with butt-plates, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 12½oz., 14¼in. pulls, 29in. barrels, all approx. ¼ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (bore-dimensions marginal)