Product Details
J. PURDEY & SONS
A SCARCE 14-BORE UNDERLEVER-COCKING BAR-IN-WOOD SIDELOCK EJECTOR, serial no. 15040,
for 1894, 29in. nitro reproved fine damascus barrels, the rib engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS, AUDLEY HOUSE, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET, LONDON.' (pitted), 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. true cyl. and 1/2 choke, Daw underlever action, possibly J. H. Apted provisional patent 2328 of 1873 with direct internal sliding bolt projection acting on the hammers rather than the Adams clutch system, the fences finely carved in high relief with leaf designs, broad top strap engraved 'PATENT', automatic safety with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' detail, arrow cocking-indicators, conversion to ejector, best fine acanthus scroll engraving with floral bouquets, 14 1/8in. figured stock, minor repairs to fore-end wood, weight 5lb. 14oz.
Provenance: The makers have kindly supplied us with the following:
No. 15040
Completed: 13th October 1894
For: H.C. Hartley (Kirkby Mallory Hall, Hinckley)
Description: A bar-in-wood hammerless non-ejector game gun
Weight: 6lb. 1 1/2oz.
Calibre: 14-bore
Barrels: 29in. Damascus
Choke: Plain (Right) & Modified (Left)
Stock: 14 1/4 1/32in.
Notes:
Built to match 12474 (completed for Hartley on 10th August 1886)
'Apted system of Hammerless'
Daw-type snap-action underlever
'Leaf detonating'
'2 marked on rib'
22nd October 1924: Now belong to P. Dale Esq., Hills Road, Cambridge, together with 10588. Had been converted to ejector elsewhere but not nitro proved.
The gun cost £73 10s, whereas a Beesley gun cost £89 5s at that time.
Just 20 guns are recorded as being described as 'Apted' in the records (though not all examples may have been indicated) and it is possible that this was the first hammerless Purdey guns were built on - though this cannot be confirmed and sadly the patent details for the Apted design are not illustrated in the patent records
Other Notes: Please see Lot 900 for a Purdey brass-cornered oak and leather double guncase with charges label hand-written for 10588 and 15040 and Lot 704 for gun serial no. 10588
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Estimate £2,000-3,000
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament