Lot Essay
The gun was completed circa 1909 and appears to have been little used. It was converted to single-trigger and beavertail forend by the makers in 1960
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A 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 19616, Purdey non-selective single-trigger, the fences chiselled in relief with stylized acanthus foliage, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, highly-figured replacement stock, beavertail forend, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-rib
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A 12-BORE SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. PURDEY, No. 19616, Purdey non-selective single-trigger, the fences chiselled in relief with stylized acanthus foliage, best bouquet and scroll engraving with much hardening-colour, highly-figured replacement stock, beavertail forend, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-rib
Weight 7lb., 14½in. stock, 29in. barrels, approx. I.C. & 7/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case with canvas cover
Weight 7lb., 14½in. stock, 29in. barrels, approx. I.C. & 7/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather case with canvas cover