Product Details
PURDEY
A 16-BORE TOPLEVER HAMMERGUN, serial no. 9759,
28in. sleeved nitro barrels, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 3/4 choke in both, carved percussion fences, toplever spring broken, modified topstrap, rebounding sidelocks with dolphin hammers, action flats missing studs, partial bar-in-wood, lockplates, action and furniture with some pitting and partially re-engraved, the lockplates crudely signed 'PURDEY', 14 5/8in. highly-figured stock with various repaired cracks to horns and underside, fore-end with some damage and repairs, weight 6lb.
Provenance: The makers have kindly informed us that this shotgun was completed 1877 with 30in. barrels for Sir Richard Sutton.
Sir Richard Francis Sutton, 5th Baronet was born 20th December 1853 at the family seat of Northwood Park. He was a keen and able yachtsman who earned the right to challenge Puritan in the 1885 America's Cup with his gaff cutter Genesta. He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1887 and died 25th February 1891, when the title passed to his son, Richard Vincent Sutton.
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Estimate £500-700
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