拍品專文
The guns were completed circa 1936 and appear to have been relatively little used. Their present specifications conform to those entered in the maker's books
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A FINE PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 25091/2, the serial numbers and maker's name gold-inlaid on the furniture and barrels, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour and blueing, well-figured stocks, the chopper-lump barrels with sunken game-ribs
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A FINE PAIR OF LIGHTWEIGHT 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, No. 25091/2, the serial numbers and maker's name gold-inlaid on the furniture and barrels, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour and blueing, well-figured stocks, the chopper-lump barrels with sunken game-ribs
Weight 6lb. 5oz., 15 1/8in. stocks, 28in. barrels, both approx. ¼ & ¾ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
Weight 6lb. 5oz., 15 1/8in. stocks, 28in. barrels, both approx. ¼ & ¾ choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case