A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'SPRING-OPENER' SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS_BY H. ATKIN, No. 3326/7, the lockplates and furniture set-over, best bouquet and scroll engraving, bright finish, well-figured stocks with extensions, cast-off towards across-eyed, the chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs, gun No. 2 rebarrelled by H. Atkin

The Property of CHAPMAN PINCHER, Esq.

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A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'SPRING-OPENER' SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS_BY H. ATKIN, No. 3326/7, the lockplates and furniture set-over, best bouquet and scroll engraving, bright finish, well-figured stocks with extensions, cast-off towards across-eyed, the chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs, gun No. 2 rebarrelled by H. Atkin
Weight 6lb. 7oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 13oz. (No. 2), 15 1/8in. pulls, 28in. barrels, choke approx. 3/8 & ½ (No. 1) and ¼ & 3/8 (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In their leather case
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Lot Essay

Chapman Pincher, freelance journalist, novelist and business consultant is probably best known to most people as an author. His many books cover a wide range of subjects ranging from matters of the countryside to aspects of government and Whitehall. He was Assistant Editor, Daily Express, and Chief Defence Correspondent, Beaverbrook Newspapers between 1972 and 1979. He received the Granada Award, Journalist of the Year in 1964 and Reporter of the Decade award in 1966
Gun No. 2 was rebarrelled by Atkins' circa 1976

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