Lot Essay
The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1896 and the No. 1 gun was restocked by them in 1994
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, NO. 15519/20
The lockplates inset with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, highly figured stocks, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs (No. 1 Loose)
Weight 6lb. 6oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 7oz. (No. 2), 14 3/8in. stocks, 30in. barrels, choke approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) and I.C. & ¾ (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (barrel-thicknesses marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
The lockplates inset with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, highly figured stocks, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels with game-ribs (No. 1 Loose)
Weight 6lb. 6oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 7oz. (No. 2), 14 3/8in. stocks, 30in. barrels, choke approx. cyl. & ¾ (No. 1) and I.C. & ¾ (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (barrel-thicknesses marginal)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
Special notice
Rifles and Pistols, (red labels) with specific exceptions (blue and yellow labels), require a British Firearms Certificate or Export Licence. All are sold 'as found'.
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.