A SET OF THREE 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS_BY J. PURDEY, No. 24941/2 and 25063, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stocks with pistolgrips and recoil-pads, the chopper-lumps barrels with game-ribs

The Property of the late SIR THOMAS SOPWITH, C.B.E.

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A SET OF THREE 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS_BY J. PURDEY, No. 24941/2 and 25063, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stocks with pistolgrips and recoil-pads, the chopper-lumps barrels with game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 7oz., 15in. pulls, 28in. barrels, approx. ¼ & 7/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (bore-dimensions marginal)
In their leather 'Lightweight' motor-case
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Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888-1989) was one of the greatest figures in aviation history. His inventiveness and his passion for flight were instrumental in producing a series of vital technological advances in this field, including the Sopwith biplanes of the First World War, the Hurricane and Typhoon fighter-aircraft of the Second World War and the development of the jet-engine

Guns No. 24941/2 were completed in 1935 and gun No. 25063 was built in the same year as the third gun to the pair
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