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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1907
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY F. BEESLEY, NO. 1831/2
The fences carved with stylized acanthus leaves, best bouquet and scroll engraving, exceptionally-figured stocks with ebonite extensions, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs and scroll-engraved breech-ends
Weight 6lb. 10oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 11½oz. (No. 2), 15½in. pulls, 29¾in. barrels, choke approx. I. C. & ¼ (No. 1) and cyl. both (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (No. 1 left barrel-thickness and No. 2 right barrel-thickness marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
The fences carved with stylized acanthus leaves, best bouquet and scroll engraving, exceptionally-figured stocks with ebonite extensions, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs and scroll-engraved breech-ends
Weight 6lb. 10oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 11½oz. (No. 2), 15½in. pulls, 29¾in. barrels, choke approx. I. C. & ¼ (No. 1) and cyl. both (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof (No. 1 left barrel-thickness and No. 2 right barrel-thickness marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
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