Lot 49
49
The Property of N.O. RATCLIFF, Esq.
A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 14599, best bouquet and scroll engraving, brushed bright finish, boldly-figured stock with recoil-pad, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-rib

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A 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN_BY J. PURDEY, No. 14599, best bouquet and scroll engraving, brushed bright finish, boldly-figured stock with recoil-pad, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-rib
Weight 6lb. 9½oz., 14 3/8in. pull, 28in. barrels, both approx. cyl., 2½in. chambers, nitro proof

Lot Essay

The gun was completed circa 1894; the barrels were shortened by Purdey's to 28in. in 1924

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