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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1893
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY,
NO. 14778/9
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY,
NO. 14778/9
Best bouquet and scroll engraving with some hardening-colour, beetle-backed safeties, cocking-indicators, highly-figured stocks, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-ribs
Weight: 6lb. 7½oz., 14½in. stocks, 28in. barrels, each approx. I.C. & ¼ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof
NO. 14778/9
Best bouquet and scroll engraving with some hardening-colour, beetle-backed safeties, cocking-indicators, highly-figured stocks, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-ribs
Weight: 6lb. 7½oz., 14½in. stocks, 28in. barrels, each approx. I.C. & ¼ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof