A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 14657/8, beetle-backed safeties, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving, boldly-figured stocks with extensions, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs

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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 14657/8, beetle-backed safeties, cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving, boldly-figured stocks with extensions, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 11oz., 15 1/8in. pulls, 29in. barrels, both approx. cyl. & 5/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (No. 1 right bore-dimension marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case

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Purdey's have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in August 1893. The barrel lengths are original

The lot is subject to V.A.T. as a re-import

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