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WILLIAM POWELL & SON
A PAIR OF 12-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 14077 / 8,
27in. Whitworth-steel chopperlump nitro barrels, ribs engraved 'WILLIAM POWELL & SON. 35, CARR'S LANE. BIRMINGHAM. SIR J. WHITWORTH'S PRESSED FLUID STEEL', and gold-inlaid '1' and '2', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/4 and 1/2 choke, treble-grip actions, fences carved in relief with bold acanthus scrolls on a matt background, toplevers gold-inlaid '1' and '2', automatic safeties with gold-inlaid 'SAFE' details, fine acanthus scroll engraving, retaining some original colour-hardening, 16 3/8in. well-figured stocks including 1in. wooden extensions, No.1 with repaired crack at hand, weight 6lb. 10oz., in their brass-cornered leather case with canvas and leather outer
Provenance: The vendor kindly informs us that the guns were made in 1930 as a 21st birthday present for Major John Edward Buckingham Pope.
Pope was born in 1909 and was schooled at Eton before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He then joined the Coldstream Guards, first as a 2nd Lt. but had attained the rank of Major by 1942. He was made High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1955. He died in October 1978 and this pair of shotguns were passed to his son, the vendor.
Estimate £8,000-12,000
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