A 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER-AND-UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. WOODWARD, NO. 6078

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WOODWARD'S FIRST OVER-AND-UNDER GUN

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A 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER-AND-UNDER SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. WOODWARD, NO. 6078
The treble-grip action-body with a concealed top-bite and carved and engraved elliptical side-bolsters, with two additional side-slots for the twin barrel-lugs, non-selective single-trigger, the detonating with carved arcaded fences, best foliate-scroll engraving with some hardening-colour, the lockplates with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, highly-figured replacement stock and forend-wood, the stock with horn-capped pistolgrip, sling-swivels, the Whitworth-steel barrels with engraved side-fillets and breech-flat.
Weight 9lb. 9oz., 14 1/8in. stock, 29¼in. barrels, approx. cyl. & I.C., 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case

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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium.

Lot Essay

This gun is Woodward's first ever over-and-under gun and it was completed in 1909. The entry in the maker's books refers specifically to the barrels being 'placed vertically (one underneath the other) instead of (horizontally) ,,,,, arranged to fire bottom barrel first.'
The Woodward over-and-under design most commonly encountered (please see Lots 322-323) was patented in 1913 and it is interesting to note that there is absolutely no similarity between the two patterns. No 6078 is likely to have been a unique order and it is of particular interest that Woodward's built a gun originally weighing 8lb. 15oz. for a 12-bore gun firing 2½in. cartridges. The stock oval is inscribed 'Lt. Col. 'RED' Cundiff'

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