拍品 143
143
The Property of A.W. BROWN, Esq.
A FINE HUNT-ENGRAVED 12-BORE(3IN. MAGNUM) SINGLE-TRIGGER UNDER-AND-OVER SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 28805, manual safe, hold-open toplever, Purdey non-selective single-trigger, the lockplates, action-bar and furniture profusely engraved with game-scenes, the right lockplate with mallard, the left lockplate with Canada geese, in their naturalistic settings, the underside of the action-body engraved with a spaniel and mallard and the forend-iron with a wigeon, the whole surrounded and invaded by bold stylized acanthus leaves, the maker's name inlaid in gold on the lockplates, each lockplate signed 'K.C. Hunt 87', the underside of the action-bar signed 'K.C. Hunt', bright finish overall, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, the barrels with matt ventilated top-rib

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A FINE HUNT-ENGRAVED 12-BORE(3IN. MAGNUM) SINGLE-TRIGGER UNDER-AND-OVER SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 28805, manual safe, hold-open toplever, Purdey non-selective single-trigger, the lockplates, action-bar and furniture profusely engraved with game-scenes, the right lockplate with mallard, the left lockplate with Canada geese, in their naturalistic settings, the underside of the action-body engraved with a spaniel and mallard and the forend-iron with a wigeon, the whole surrounded and invaded by bold stylized acanthus leaves, the maker's name inlaid in gold on the lockplates, each lockplate signed 'K.C. Hunt 87', the underside of the action-bar signed 'K.C. Hunt', bright finish overall, highly-figured stock with pistolgrip, the barrels with matt ventilated top-rib
Weight 7lb. 7½oz., 14¾in. stock, 27in. barrels, approx. 3/8 & 7/8 choke, 3in. magnum chambers, nitro proof (for maximum service pressures of 4 tons)
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拍品專文

The gun was completed circa 1987 and appears to have been relatively little used

A.W. Brown was sometime High Gun for England and has shot for England over the period of the last sixteen years