Product Details
PURDEY
A 12-BORE ROTARY-UNDERLEVER HAMMERGUN, serial no. 9569,
30 3/8in. nitro reproved replacement nitro chopperlump barrels (by the makers, wall thicknesses below recommended minimum, pitted), the rib engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON. MADE OF SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH'S FLUID-PRESSED STEEL.', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 choke in both, Jones patent rotary underlever, carved percussion fences, rebounding locks with dolphin hammers, best fine bouquet and scroll engraving, brushed and reblued finish, 14 1/2in. figured replacement stock including 3/4in. leather-covered rubber recoil pad, weight 6lb. 15oz., in a canvas and leather case
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed in 1877 for Lord Brownlow.
Adelbert Wellington Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow GCVO, PC, VD, DL, JP (19 August 1844 – 17 March 1921) served with the Grenadier Guards as lieutenant from 1863 to 1866, and was later commanding officer of the Bedfordshire Volunteer Infantry Brigade between 1889 and 1892, and Home Counties Brigade in 1895. He was Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment from 1868 to 1908, of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment from 1883 to 1901, and of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and 4th Volunteer Battalion of the Hertfordshire Regiment from 1901. He was awarded the Volunteer Decoration.
Brownlow was a Volunteer Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1921 New Year Honours for his services to the Royal Household.
Lord Brownlow married Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1868. They had no children. She died in March 1917, aged 73. Lord Brownlow survived her by four years and died in March 1921, aged 75
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Estimate £1,000-1,500
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