


Lot 206S2
A pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 15822/3 In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
6 April 2011, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £11,040 inc. premium
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A pair of 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector guns by J. Purdey & Sons, no. 15822/3
Toplevers engraved '1' and '2', best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, cocking-indicators, some hardening-colour, well-figured stocks (No. 1 cracked and pinned at rear of top-tang), the No. 1 replacement barrels with game-rib engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London, England; the No. 2 Whitworth Steel chopper-lump barrels with game-rib engraved J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London Made of Sir Joseph Whitworth's Fluid Pressed Steel
Weight 6lb. 8¾oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 7¼oz. (No. 2), 14¾in. stocks, 28in. barrels (No. 1) and 30in. barrels (No. 2), approx. I.C. & ½ choke (No. 1) and I.C. & 5/8 choke (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, London nitro proof (No.2 right bore-diameter marginal, barrel-thicknesses below recommended minimum)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
Weight 6lb. 8¾oz. (No. 1) and 6lb. 7¼oz. (No. 2), 14¾in. stocks, 28in. barrels (No. 1) and 30in. barrels (No. 2), approx. I.C. & ½ choke (No. 1) and I.C. & 5/8 choke (No. 2), 2½in. chambers, London nitro proof (No.2 right bore-diameter marginal, barrel-thicknesses below recommended minimum)
In their brass-mounted oak and leather case
Footnotes
The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1897, and that the barrels were probably fitted to the No. 1 gun by them in the 1960's