Details of Lot 251
J. PURDEY & SONS
A 12-BORE TOP LEVER HAMMER LIVE PIGEON GUN, NO. 17677

32-inch Whitworth steel chopper-lump barrels with 2 3/4-inch chambers about full choke borings, mid extension, the frame, rebounding back locks, hammers and top lever with fine bouquet and scroll engraving, clipped fences, 15-inch well figured replacement stock, 7lb. 4oz., nitro proof, bores pitted, barrel wall thickness marginal

The makers confirm that the gun was built in 1902.

Sold for £7500
Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns
Olympia, West London
11 December 2007
Commission is 25% ex. VAT. Artist's Resale Right may apply