Product Details
A CASED 32-BORE TWO-GROOVE PERCUSSION DOUBLE RIFLE BY PURDEY, serial no. 4862,
for 1853, with twin-groove rifled browned 30in. damascus barrels, the top-rib with traces of signature only, long bead fore-sight, standing notch rear-sight with two additional folding leaves, scroll engraved rib-end, single platinum line interrupted by the rib at breech together with two engraved bands and platinum vents, fully engraved top-tang, border and scroll engraved bar-action locks signed 'PURDEY' (areas of shallow pitting and frosting), sliding safes forwards of the scroll engraved slab-sided dolphin headed hammers, chequered walnut half-stock, raised cheek-piece, crested iron patch-box to right hand side of butt (pitted), engraved and chequered iron heel-plate, iron trigger-guard bow with chequered tang spur and brass mounted mahogany matching number ramrod; together with a walnut case, partially relined in red baize and with some repairs, facsimile 'J. Purdey' trade-label and containing a leather-covered white metal topped James Dixon bag-shaped powder flask, a period cap-tin, various nipple-keys, a ball-mould numbered 5140 and marked to 'H. D. Ingilly' and sundry other accessories
Provenance: Patrick Unsworth's volume, 'The Early Purdeys' lists this rifle as 'A 32-bore finished on 10th August 1853 at a cost of £84'
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Estimate £2,500-3,500