Fine Modern & Antique Guns - June 2018 : Sale A0618 Lot 515
JAMES PURDEY, LONDON A .500 PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED PARK-RIFLE, serial no. 1407,

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JAMES PURDEY, LONDON
A .500 PERCUSSION SINGLE-BARRELLED PARK-RIFLE, serial no. 1407,
circa 1828, with 28in. twist-iron octagonal barrel, dove-tailed fore-sight with provision for tunnel protector (missing), standing notch rear-sight with additional twin folding leaves, the top-flat of barrel signed 'J. PURDEY, No 314 1/2 OXFORD STREET LONDON', twin platinum lines at breech (traces of colour), scroll engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved bar-action lock with sliding safe behind the hammer, chequered walnut half-stock, iron furniture including chequered pistol-grip spur to the lower tang, single set trigger and mushroom headed ebony ramrod

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Estimate £1,000-2,000