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.650 (16 Bore) Percussion Sporting Rifle by J. Purdey
.650 (16 Bore) Percussion Sporting Rifle by J. Purdey
£5,450.00
Product Code
PURDEY118
In stock
"A .650 (16 Bore) Percussion Sporting Rifle by J. Purdey, 314 1/2 Oxford Street London. Circa 1832. With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel, 73.5cm, 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 recessed patent breech retaining some case hardening and with two platinum lines and pierced platinum plug. Foliate scroll engraved tang with tigers mask on the sighting flat, signed border engraved serial numbered detented flat lock decorated with foliate scrollwork and with a prone stag in a landscape.
"A .650 (16 Bore) Percussion Sporting Rifle by J. Purdey, 314 1/2 Oxford Street London. Circa 1832. With browned twist octagonal sighted barrel, 73.5cm, 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 recessed patent breech retaining some case hardening and with two platinum lines and pierced platinum plug. Foliate scroll engraved tang with tigers mask on the sighting flat, signed border engraved serial numbered detented flat lock decorated with foliate scrollwork and with a prone stag in a landscape.
The mechanism retaining its burnished finish, dolphin hammer with foliate scrolls en suite, engraved safety-catch, ebonised half-stock with cheek-piece, chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a stags head and foliate scrolls on the heel tang, blued serial numbered trigger-guard with chequered spur and decorated with a tiger in a landscape between borders of ropework on the bow. Case hardened trigger plate with a scallop shell above a palmette on the pointed finial, border engraved barrel bolt escutcheons, sling button engraved as a flower-head, replacement wooden ramrod, and retaining some original finish. London proof mark and James Purdeys barrelsmiths mark.
Provenance: The Chris Wynn Collection of Early Purdeys Literature: L. Patrick Unsworth, The Early Purdeys, 1996, p. 148. Recorded as sold on 7 August 1832 for £39.18.0. Unsworth notes The Customer, Lord Craven, also bought rifle No. 2361 [see lot 77]. No. 2239 was sold at auction in 1974 with the barrel to 2361, 36. Donald Dallas, Purdey Gun & Rifle Makers..., 2000, p. 191 William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven (1809-1866), styled Viscount Uffington until 1825, was educated at Christchurch, Oxford. In 1829 he was commissioned captain in the Berkshire Regiment of Militia. Lord Craven was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire and of Berkshire in 1831. In 1853 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire and held the office until 1856 when he resigned due to ill-health. The bottom of the butt punched HOWELL twice and incised 1832 July 12, presumably the date the stock was completed "| Weight (kg) | 3.597 |
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| Mechanism | Percussion |
| License Type | No Licence Required |
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