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Best Quality Purdey & Sons SxS Shotgun

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:10,000.00 USD Estimated At:20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
Best Quality Purdey & Sons SxS Shotgun
Auction Location:

16600 Aston Street
Irvine, CA 92606
Best Quality Purdey & Sons Side-by-Side Shotgun, #23153, 12 ga., 30'' matted game rib barrels choked IC/IC with 2-3/4'' chambers, case hardened banknote and rosette engraved frame and sideplates, finely checkered English straight-grip walnut stock with splinter forend, and later added red rubber butt pad. Top of barrel marked ''J. Purdey & Sons, Audley House, South Audley Street, London'', and ''Made of Sir Joseph Whitworth's Fluid Pressed Steel''. White ivory front bead, double triggers, manual safety with ejectors, cocking indicators, and ovoid plaque at bottom of stock. Mfg'd 1925, with only 97 produced that year. Condition is excellent. Barrels retain approx. 97%+ English rust type blue. Case hardened frame and sideplates show 92% vivid case colors, with the balance point toning and silvering slightly. Stock and forend appear to be refreshed somewhat, with forend checkering being of a slightly coarser pattern. Stock with only light marks from handling. Action remains crisp, bores are bright. Length of pull to end of wood: 13-5/8''; 14-1/2'' to end of pad. Stock with very minor right-hand cast-off. Drop at heel 2-1/8''; drop at comb 1-5/8''. Est.: $20,000-$30,000. (C&R) (Ernest A. Bryant III estate)