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Best Quality Purdey & Sons SxS Shotgun

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:9,000.00 USD Estimated At:18,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD
Best Quality Purdey & Sons SxS Shotgun
Auction Location:

16600 Aston Street
Irvine, CA 92606
Best Quality Purdey & Sons Side-by-Side Shotgun, #19119, 12 ga., 30'' 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 brown 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''. Steel front bead, double triggers, manual safety with ejectors, cocking indicators, and ovoid plaque at bottom of stock. Engraved on lever ''Patent''. Mfg'd 1906, with only 301 produced that year. Condition is fine. Barrels retain approx. 90% thinning and lightly toning of a fine English blue. Case hardened frame and sideplates have thinned to approx. 85% of their original hues with mellow toning to silver. Stock and forend have been refreshened somewhat, with forend checkering being of a slightly coarser pattern. Stock with minor scuffs and thinning to finish from field use. Action remains crisp, bores are bright. Length of pull to end of wood: 14''; 15'' to end of pad. Stock with very minor right-hand cast-off. Drop at heel 2-3/8''; drop at comb 1-3/8''. Est.: $18,000-$24,000. (C&R) (Ernest A. Bryant III estate)