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Lot 624S2

A 12-bore 'Grade FH35' Facile Princeps ejector gun by W.W. Greener, no. 55084
In its brass-mounted leather case (handle missing) with Greener oil bottle, Greener snap-caps, two Greener turnscrews and a Greener chamberbrush with original Greener receipt

29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £625 inc. premium

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A 12-bore 'Grade FH35' Facile Princeps ejector gun by W.W. Greener, no. 55084

The sides of the bolstered treble-grip action-body with the maker's name engraved in a scrolling banner and some foliate-scrollwork, some hardening-colour, manual side-safety, well-figured stock, horn-inset drop-points and horn butt-plate, horn-tip forend, the Wrought steel barrels with game-rib engraved W.W. Greener, Maker, 68 Haymarket, London, Works St. Mary's Square, Birmingham
Weight 6lb. 13oz., 15in. pull (14⅝in. stock), 30in. barrels, approx. ¼ & ⅞ choke, 2¾in. chambers, recent Birmingham nitro reproof (left barrel-thickness at 19 thou)
In its brass-mounted leather case (handle missing) with Greener oil bottle, Greener snap-caps, two Greener turnscrews and a Greener chamberbrush with original Greener receipt

Footnotes

The makers have kindly confirmed that the gun was completed in 1908. This gun is sold with its original invoice from 1909 listing the case and its inventory which came to a total of 37 guineas

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