A PAIR OF 16-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY,NO. 14603/4

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A PAIR OF 16-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY, NO. 14603/4

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A PAIR OF 16-BORE SELF-OPENING SIDELOCK EJECTOR GUNS BY J. PURDEY,
NO. 14603/4
Best bouquet and scroll engraving, cocking-indicators, well-figured stocks with butt-plates, the Whitworth-steel chopper-lump barrels (shortened) with game-ribs
Weight: 5lb. 12oz., 14 3/8in. pulls, 27½in. barrels, choke approx. ½ & ¼ (reversed) No.1 and ¼ both (No.2), 2½in. chambers, nitro reproof (No.1) and nitro proof (No.2),
No.1 right barrel-thickness below recommended minimum

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The makers have kindly confirmed that the guns were completed in 1894. The No.1 gun has a right barrel-thickness that is well below the recommended minimum but the gun has passed a recent nitro reproof and has accordingly been tested rigorously and viewed both before and after the proof test at the London Proof House