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J. PURDEY & SONS
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE 12-BORE ROUNDED-BAR SINGLE-TRIGGER SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 13132,
for 1889, 26in. replacement nitro barrels (likely circa 1943), the rib engraved WILLIAM FORD. 4. PRICE STREET. BIRMINGHAM. 4.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 3/4 choke, side-clipped action with removable striker discs, automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, arrow cocking-indicators, H. Schmidt pattern ejector system (as made), converted to Boss 1894 improved patent single trigger, best fine acanthus scroll engraving with floral bouquets, the fences finely carved with leaf motifs, the underside with 'PURDEY'S PATENT', the front of the triggerplate with later engraved 'BOSS'S PATENT 22894', 14 1/4in. figured stock with leather inset cheekpad to the comb and including 7/8in. leather covered recoil pad, the fore-end finial gold-inset '1', weight 6lb. 8oz.
Provenance: The makers have kindly supplied us with the following information:
No. 13132
Completed: January 1889
For: G. Jobson Marples
Description: A hammerless ejector game gun
Weight: 6lb. 5½oz.
Calibre: 12-bore
Barrels: 29in. Whitworth Steel
Choke:
Stock: 14 5/8 1/32in.
Notes:
Action with clip sides (no note of action shape)
Spring-bladed front-trigger
'Long hand' to stock
Schmidt ejectors
Later paired to 13393, completed October 1889. Unlike this gun, that one appears to have been completed with Wem ejectors
Both guns were later in the hands of F. Astley (c. 1920s)
They have also confirmed this to be a very interesting example, being fitted with Schmidt ejectors. One of three patterns of ejectors being experimented with around 1888/9, this design, along with the Nobbs ejector were "also rans" - and just three examples of this pattern ejector are known to have been made.
The conversion to single trigger from double is not recorded in Purdey's ledgers, most likely it will have been executed by Boss & Co., but the date of the conversion is unknown.
Other Notes: H. Schmidt appears on numerous occasions in the dimension books under 'luggers' and his name appears in the Purdey wage books in May 1875 'H. Schmidt - levers, luggers £3.12s 6d.' and also January 1889 'H. Schmidt - levers, luggers £3.10s.0d' (courtesy of Appendix 5 of 'James Purdey & Sons Gun and Rifle Makers - Two Hundred Years of Excellence' by Donald Dallas)
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Estimate £1,000-1,500
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act