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Lot 302

A Fine 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle
By J. Purdey, 314½ Oxford Street, London, No. 4506 For 1850

25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine 18-Bore Percussion Sporting Rifle
By J. Purdey, 314½ Oxford Street, London, No. 4506 For 1850

With browned twist octagonal leaf-sighted barrel rifled with ten grooves and signed in full along the top flat at the breech, case-hardened breech with platinum line and pierced engraved platinum plug, foliate scroll engraved case-hardened tang, signed border engraved flat detented lock and dolphin hammer (spur repaired), the last with blued safety-catch in front, highly figured half-stock with chequered grip and fore-end, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising chequered butt-plate and trigger-guard with chequered spur, case-hardened trigger-plate with foliate engraved pineapple-shaped finial, hinged circular case-hardened patch-box cover engraved with a circular design of feather work centred on a flower-head, set trigger, case-hardened barrel-butt escutcheons and fore-end cap en suite with the mounts, later brass-mounted ramrod, and most of its original finish, London proof marks

Footnotes

Literature
L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, 1996, p. 162. Recorded as a 16-bore

Cf. a very similar rifle, no. 4448 for 1848, sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns, 28 July 2010, lot 527

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