A RARE 12-BORE (2¾IN.) SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER-AND-UNDER 'PREMIERE' SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY E.J. CHURCHILL, NO. 3113

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus … Read more

Details

A RARE 12-BORE (2¾IN.) SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER-AND-UNDER 'PREMIERE' SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY E.J. CHURCHILL, NO. 3113
Safe fixed on fire, hold-open toplever, non-selective single-trigger with double rolled-edge triggerguard, pinless locks, best foliate-scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, figured stock with pistolgrip (cracked at the hand), Monte Carlo comb and recoil-pad, the barrels with matt ventilated top-rib, intermediate bead-sight and scroll-engraved breech-ends

Weight 8lb. 4½oz., 15in. pull, 32in. barrels, approx. ½ & full choke, 2¾ in. chambers, nitro proof (thicknesses well below recommended minimum, bores distorted), under-stock gold plaque engraved 'R.B.A.', inlaid with gold flying duck on top of pin release

In its leather 'V.C.' case

Maker's records:

Built 1926/27 for Mr. Grover Walsh. 12-bore Over-and-Under 'Premiere'. One of a pair. No barrel length or other details shown

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer’s premium Sporting Guns. Unless otherwise stated, this gun is a double-barrelled hammerless shotgun. Every gun (blue label), with specific exceptions (yellow label), requires a Shot Gun Certificate

Lot Essay

Competition history: Barcelona, 1957; Vichy; Monte Carlo

Russell B. Aitken said this was his first Churchill. Sold with three Churchill invoices, two dated December 1956, the third dated 16 April 1959, all for work carried out on the gun, together with detailed instructions for use, and a Robert Churchill letter of 5 December 1956 mentioning the gun

More from FINE SPORTING GUNS AND VINTAGE FIREARMS

View All