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20 Bore (.600) Percussion Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey

20 Bore (.600) Percussion Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey

Antique Purdey Rifles
£4,250.00
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A 20 Bore (.600) Single Percussion Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey, 314 Oxford Street, London, No. 2109 For 1833. With a browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full along the top flat, rifled with ten spiral grooves. London proof marks. 72.5cm barrel, 112.5cm overall length.
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A 20 Bore (.600) Single Percussion Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey, 314 Oxford Street, London, No. 2109 For 1833. With a browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full along the top flat, rifled with ten spiral grooves, and leaf sighted from 100 to 200 yards, each leaf with central platinum line.

Border engraved case-hardened breech with two platinum lines and pierced platinum plug. Tang engraved with foliate scrollwork and with a tigers mask on the sighting flat, signed border engraved recase-hardened serial numbered detented flat lock decorated with foliate scrollwork and with a prone stag in a landscape (engraving refreshed). The mechanism retaining its burnished finish, dolphin hammer with foliate scrolls en suite.

Ebonised half-stock with cheek-piece, chequered grip and forend, the latter with dark horn cap. Reblued steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with foliate engraving on the heel tang. Serial numbered trigger-guard with chequered spur and re-engraved running stag in a landscape between borders of ropework on the bow. Trigger-plate with a scallop shell on the pointed finial. Border engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons, adjustable set trigger, engraved sling button, and original horn-tipped ramrod, London proof marks. 72.5cm barrel, 112.5cm overall length.

Provenance: The Gewehrkammer of the Kings of Hanover, Blankenburg until moved to Schloss Marienburg in 1945.

Literature: Unsworth, p. 147. Recorded as sold on 18 May 1833 for £39.18.0. Built for the Duke of Brunswick (1806-1884). Dallas, 2000, p. 191

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