Product Details
PURDEY, LONDON
A 12-BORE PINFIRE DOUBLE-BARRELLED SPORTING GUN, MODEL '1st PATTERN THUMBHOLE', serial no. 7319,
for 1866, with re-browned damascus 30in. barrels, the top rib signed 'PURDEY, 314 1/2 OXFORD STREET, LONDON' (worn and obscured), carved fences with full scroll engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved back-action locks signed 'PURDEY', walnut straight hand butt-stock (chequering worn smooth), iron heel-plate, engraved wishbone trigger-guard and thumb-catch, chequered splinter fore-end, some staining to exposed iron surfaces.
Provenance: The makers have kindly informed us that this shotgun was completed in 1866 for the Rev. J. Goring.
The Reverend John Goring was born at Wiston in Sussex, 3rd March 1824 to Charles and Mary Goring. He was schooled at Winchester and was recorded in the 1861 census as living back at the family home of Wiston Park, by then a Church of England Clergyman, with twelve servants. Ten years later the census indicates that he had married Isabella who bore him two sons and two daughters. He died 15th January 1905.
Estimate £500-700