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Guns circa 1906
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A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY & SONS, NO. 18339/40
Fine rose and scroll engraving, traces of colour hardening, arrowhead cocking-indicators, disc set strikers, gold inlaid automatic safe, figured replacement stock by the Maker, cast-on for left shoulder, the 'Sir Joseph Whitworth Fluid Pressed Steel' chopper lump barrels (no. 1 with minor bulge and dents) with game rib.
Weight 6lb 15½oz. (No. 1), 6lb 10½oz. (No. 2), 14¾in. cast on stocks, 3oin. barrels, chokes approx. IC, ¾ (No. 1), ¼, 7/8 (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In Maker's brass bound oak and leather case (2)
Fine rose and scroll engraving, traces of colour hardening, arrowhead cocking-indicators, disc set strikers, gold inlaid automatic safe, figured replacement stock by the Maker, cast-on for left shoulder, the 'Sir Joseph Whitworth Fluid Pressed Steel' chopper lump barrels (no. 1 with minor bulge and dents) with game rib.
Weight 6lb 15½oz. (No. 1), 6lb 10½oz. (No. 2), 14¾in. cast on stocks, 3oin. barrels, chokes approx. IC, ¾ (No. 1), ¼, 7/8 (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, nitro proof
In Maker's brass bound oak and leather case (2)
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