Product Details
FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF CHARLES DE LIGNE, PRINCE DE LIGNE
PURDEY
A 12-BORE PUSH-FORWARD UNDERLEVER BAR-IN-WOOD HAMMERGUN, serial no. 10059,
30in. nitro reproved damascus barrels, the rib engraved 'J. PURDEY. 314 1/2, OXFORD STREET. LONDON.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, bar-in-wood, carved percussion fences, best fine bouquet and scroll engraving, retaining some renewed colour-hardening and finish, 14in. figured stock (refinished), weight 6lb. 9oz., fore-end refinished, in its makers brass-cornered oak and leather case with lift-out tray which reveals a cartridge compartment holding 99 cartridges
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed as No.1 of a pair in 1877, for Charles de Ligne, Prince de Ligne
Charles de Ligne, Prince de Ligne was born on 17 November 1837 at Brussels, Belgium. He married Charlotte Josephine de Gontaut-Biron, daughter of Etienne Charles de Gontaut-Biron and Marie de Fitzjames, in 1876 at Paris, France. He died on 10 May 1914 at age 76 at Brussels, Belgium.
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Estimate £8,000-10,000
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