Product Details
J. PURDEY & SONS
A 12-BORE 'TRADE MARK QUALITY B' SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 16156,
30in. nitro barrels, rib engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON.' (indistinct), 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/2 choke, left wall thickness below recommended minimum, self-opening action with removable striker discs, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, arrow cocking-indicators, repairs to flats at cocking rods, fine acanthus scroll engraving, retaining very slight traces of colour-hardening and with renewed finish, 14 1/4in. boldly-figured replacement stock including buttplate, weight 6lb. 11oz., in its leather case with some accessories, the lid outer stamped 'G. HARGREAVES BROWN COLDSTREAM GUARDS'
Provenance: The makers have kindly informed us that this shotgun was completed July 1899 as a 'B Quality' with 30in. barrels for a G. Hargreaves-Brown. They subsequently re-stocked the gun in December 1936.
Capt. George Hargreaves-Brown was born July 1880 to Sir Alexander Hargreaves-Brown, 1st Baronet, and Henrietta Agnes Terrel Blandy. He fought in the Second Boer War and then again in the Great War. He served with the Coldstream Guards and was killed in action, aged 34, on 29th October 1914.
His father was a politician of long-standing, initially with the English Liberal Party and later the Liberal Unionist party. He sat in the Commons between 1868 and 1906.
Estimate £7,000-9,000
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