Product Details
* J. WOODWARD & SONS
A PAIR OF 12-BORE 'THE AUTOMATIC' PUSH-FORWARD UNDERLEVER SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 4374 / 5,
29in. black powder Whitworth-steel chopperlump barrels (some pits and dents, some external corrosion), the ribs gold-inlaid '1' and '2' and engraved '"THE AUTOMATIC". JAMES WOODWARD & SONS. 64 ST. JAMES'S STREET. LONDON. MADE OF SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH'S FLUID PRESSED STEEL.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. true cyl. and 1/2 choke (No.1) and imp. cyl. and 1/2 choke (No.2), carved arcaded fences with side-clips, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, removable striker discs, the action faces engraved 'JAMES WOODWARD & SONS. THE AUTOMATIC TRADEMARK', protruding tumbler pivots with gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, fine acanthus scroll engraving, pins reblued, 14in. figured pistolgrip stocks including buttplates, weight 6lb. 8oz (both), in their makers brass-cornered oak and leather double guncase
Provenance: The makers have kindly provided us with the following information:
Completed: 15th October 1889
For: The Earl of Craven
Description: No. 1 and 2 of a trio of "Automatic" hammerless ejector game guns
Weight: 6lb. 8oz.
Calibre: 12-bore
Barrels: 29in. Whitworth Steel
Choke: Cylinder & 3/8
Stock: 14 11/16in.
Notes:
Actions with clip sides
Lever down guard
Stocks with semi-pistolgrips
"ejecting actions own patent"
William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven OBE (16 December 1868 – 10 July 1921), styled Viscount Uffington from 1868 to 1883, was a British peer and Liberal politician.
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Estimate £6,000-8,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act