Product Details
WILLIAM POWELL & SON
A PAIR OF 12-BORE SIDELOCK EJECTORS, serial no. 14077 / 8,
for 1930, 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, the lockplates with central ornately engraved scrolled ovals, retaining some colour-hardening and finish, 14 3/4in. boldly-figured stocks (No.1 a replacement), small insert repairs to fore-ends, weight 6lb. 7oz., in their brass-cornered leather case, the lid exterior marked 'J.E.B. POPE. COLDSTREAM GUARDS. ASHWICKE HALL. CHIPPENHAM'
Provenance: We are kindly informed 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 the guns were passed on though the family
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Estimate £5,000-7,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act