Lot 665S2
A pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by William Powell, No. 14098/9 In a brass-mounted leather case with W. Powell trade labels, re-lined, with accessories
29 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£7,000 - £10,000
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A pair of 12-bore sidelock ejector guns by William Powell, No. 14098/9
The toplevers, ribs and forend-tips numbered '1' and '2' in gold, the fences engraved with vine leaves on a stippled ground, the action-bodies with best bouquet and foliate-scroll engraving, some hardening-colour, well-figured stocks (shortened, No. 2 with very faint lines to rear of locks) with leather-covered recoil-pads, the barrels with game-ribs engraved William Powell & Son, 35 Carr's Lane, Birmingham
Weight 6lb. 7oz., 14⅝in. pulls (13½in. stocks), 27in. barrels, both approx. I.C. & ⅜ choke, 2½in. chambers, Birmingham nitro proof (No. 2 right barrel thickness at 20 thou))
In a brass-mounted leather case with W. Powell trade labels, re-lined, with accessories
Weight 6lb. 7oz., 14⅝in. pulls (13½in. stocks), 27in. barrels, both approx. I.C. & ⅜ choke, 2½in. chambers, Birmingham nitro proof (No. 2 right barrel thickness at 20 thou))
In a brass-mounted leather case with W. Powell trade labels, re-lined, with accessories
Footnotes
The makers have kindly confirmed that these guns were completed in November 1946 for Harvey C. Leader Esq., a well-known jockey and trainer, of Denston Hall, Newmarket