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Sale 17943 - Sporting Guns, 31 Mar 2010
Knightsbridge

Please be advised that clients wishing to bid on lots marked 'S1', 'S2' or 'S5' should be in possession of the appropriate firearms cerification. Items marked with 'Y' are subject to CITES regulations when exporting these items outside the EU. Buyers are advised to inform themselves of all such regulations before purchasing said items

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Lot No: 239S2
A fine 12-bore (2¾in) self-opening sidelock ejector pigeon gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 23969
The treble-grip action-body with concealed third-bite and side-clips, best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, much hardening-colour, cocking-indicators, well-figured stock, the Whitworth Steel chopper-lump barrels, engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London Made of Sir Joseph Whitworth's Fluid Pressed Steel, with matt-rib
Weight 7lb. 12¾oz., 15 3/8in. stock, 29in. barrels, both approx. ex. full choke, 2¾in. chambers, London nitro proof
In its brass-mounted oak and leather double-guncase with canvas cover


Sold for £21,600 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

Footnote:
The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1929. It has remained in the same family since new

The case is fitted to take this gun and the next lot








 
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