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Lot 193S2

A 12-bore self-opening sidelock non-ejector gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 11347
In a J. Purdey & Sons brass-mounted oak and leather case

8 December 2010, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,320 inc. premium

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A 12-bore self-opening sidelock non-ejector gun by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 11347

The treble-grip action-body with concealed third-bite, carved fleur-de-lys fences, best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, cocking-indicators, figured replacement stock (forend slightly chipped), the Whitworth Steel chopper-lump barrels (slightly loose on action) with game-rib engraved J. Purdey & Sons, 314½ Oxford Street, London Made of Sir Joseph Whitworth's Fluid Pressed Steel
Weight 6lb. 11¾oz., 14 1/8in. stock, 30in. barrels, approx. ¼ & 5/8 choke, 2½in. chambers, London Black Powder proof (left barrel-thickness marginal)
In a J. Purdey & Sons brass-mounted oak and leather case

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1882

Frederick Beesley patented his hammerless action under patent no. 31 of 3rd January 1880, and sold the rights to Purdey's in July of that year. According to Donald Dallas, Purdey: Gun & Rifle Makers, The Definitive History, p.87, this gun would be one of the first one hundred and seventy-five guns made on this action, whereas six hundred hammer guns were produced in the same period. This was also the last year that Purdey's were on Oxford Street, moving to South Audley Street in 1883

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