Sale 5444
London
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19 July 1995
Price realised
GBP 3,450
Estimate
A 12-BORE (2¾IN) SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUN BY J. LANG, No. 15340, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, best bouquet and scroll engraving with traces of hardening-colour, well-figured stock, cast-on for the left shoulder, rebarrelled by J. Lang, with game-rib Weight 6lb. 7½oz., 13¾in. stock, 28in. barrels, approx. I.C. & ½ choke, 2¾in. chambers, nitro proof In its brass-mounted oak and leather case
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The Lang records have confirmed that the gun was completed in 1920 and rebarrelled by them in 1972
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