A PAIR OF 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 16901/2, Purdey single-triggers, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving, well-figured stocks with leather-covered recoil-pads, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-ribs

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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 16901/2, Purdey single-triggers, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving, well-figured stocks with leather-covered recoil-pads, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 10oz., 14 7/8in. pulls, 28in. barrels, choke approx. I.C. both (No. 1) and I.C. & ¼ (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (No. 1 left barrel-thickness below recommended minimum and No. 2 right barrel-thickness marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case

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Purdey's have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1900 with single-triggers. The makers subsequently lengthened the stocks with Silvers heel pads in 1902 and shortened the barrels from 30in. to 28in. in 1932