Product Details
J. PURDEY & SONS
A PAIR OF 12-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 23018 / 9,
29in. Whitworth-steel nitro chopperlump barrels, ribs engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON. MADE OF SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH'S FLUID PRESSED STEEL', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. imp. cyl. and 1/4 choke, self-opening actions with removable striker discs, toplevers engraved '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, cocking-indicators, best fine bouquet and scroll engraving, retaining traces of original colour-hardening, 15 1/4in. figured stocks including 5/8in. leather covered recoil pads, weight 6lb. 12oz.
Provenance: We are kindly informed by the makers that this pair of shotguns were completed October 1926 for J.F.C. Inglefield, Esq.
Estimate £22,000-26,000
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