Product Details
PURDEY
A 12-BORE 1863 PATENT (FIRST PATTERN) THUMBHOLE-UNDERLEVER HAMMERGUN, serial no. 7395,
for 1866, 30 1/2in. black powder only damascus barrels, the rib engraved 'J. PURDEY. 314 1/2. OXFORD STREET. LONDON.' (worn almost illegible), 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. true cyl. in both, some pitting and left wall at 18, action with slender carved serpentine fences of pinfire form, non-rebounding back-action locks with stub nose dolphin hammers, the breasts of the hammers striking linked firing pins, part of Purdey patent no. 424 of 14th February 1865, Purdey 1st pattern long throw thumbhole underlever, patent no. 1104 of 2nd May 1863, border and acanthus scroll engraving, the underside with 'PURDEY'S PATENT' (worn), 14in. replacement stock, weight 6lb. 12oz.
Provenance: The makers have kindly provided us with the following information:
Completed: 1866
For: Lord Dalmeny
Description: No. 2 of a pair of double-barrelled centre-fire hammer game guns
Weight: 7lb.
Calibre: 12-bore
Barrels: 30in.
Choke: Both Cylinder
Stock: 14 3/16in.
Notes:
Purdey patent thumblever
Stocked with long grip
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (7 May 1847 - 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.
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Estimate £700-900
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act