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A Cased .450 (40-Bore Black Powder Express) Percussion Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey
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A Cased .450 (40-Bore Black Powder Express) Percussion Two-Groove Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey, 314½ Oxford Street, London, No. 6031 For 1861. With browned damascus twist sighted barrels each rifled for a belted ball, matted along the rib between the breeches and towards the fore-sight, and signed in full forward of the folding leaf-sights from '100' to '200' yards, each leaf with central platinum line. Border engraved breeches each with short platinum line and pierced platinum plug engraved with a rosette, and decorated with symmetrical foliage on the flat between. Case-hardened tang engraved with symmetrical scrolling foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened serial numbered detented flat locks each decorated with foliate scrollwork and stamped with lockmaker's initials 'J.G' on the inside. The mechanisms retaining their case-hardened and burnished finish, dolphin hammers decorated en suite and each with blued safety-catch in front. Highly figured half-stock with cheek-piece, chequered grip and forend, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising chequered butt. Serial numbered trigger-guard retaining some blueing and with chequered spur, trigger-plate with long slender finial decorated with two flower-heads, and hinged circular case-hardened patch-box cover with a flower-head centred on a circular arrangement of scrolling foliage within a border of repeated flowering foliage. Engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons, sling mounts (ramrod missing), and retaining some original finish.
In associated partly relined and refitted brass-mounted oak case with some accessories including Sykes patent white-metal mounted powder-flask with bag-shaped body covered in black pigskin, and in fine condition, brass bullet mould serial numbered to the rifle, steel sprue-cutter, reproduction powder magazine painted black and 'Improved Rifle Powder.' in gilt, and with reproduction bullet swedge and two wooden bullet-starters, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (damage), the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a flush-fitting circular brass carrying handle, London proof marks
Barrel Length - 75cm. Overall Length - 118cm.
Literature - Unsworth, p. 172. Recorded as sold on 15 August 1861 for £84.0.0. Built for The Earl of Ducie
Dallas, p. 192 - Henry John Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie (1827-1921), styled Lord Moreton between 1840 and 1853, was a courtier and Liberal Party politician. He served as Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard between 1859, the year he was admitted to the Privy Council, and 1866, and as Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall between 1888 and 1908. He lived at Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire, built between 1848 and 1853, and during the course of his life he spent much of his time acquiring unusual and exotic plants from around the world to plant in the grounds.
Offered with a facsimile of an article titled 'Crocodile Shooting', from ''Land And Water'', 3 February 1872.
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A Cased .450 (40-Bore Black Powder Express) Percussion Two-Groove Sporting Rifle By J. Purdey, 314½ Oxford Street, London, No. 6031 For 1861. With browned damascus twist sighted barrels each rifled for a belted ball, matted along the rib between the breeches and towards the fore-sight, and signed in full forward of the folding leaf-sights from '100' to '200' yards, each leaf with central platinum line. Border engraved breeches each with short platinum line and pierced platinum plug engraved with a rosette, and decorated with symmetrical foliage on the flat between. Case-hardened tang engraved with symmetrical scrolling foliage, signed border engraved case-hardened serial numbered detented flat locks each decorated with foliate scrollwork and stamped with lockmaker's initials 'J.G' on the inside. The mechanisms retaining their case-hardened and burnished finish, dolphin hammers decorated en suite and each with blued safety-catch in front. Highly figured half-stock with cheek-piece, chequered grip and forend, border engraved steel mounts decorated with foliate scrollwork and comprising chequered butt. Serial numbered trigger-guard retaining some blueing and with chequered spur, trigger-plate with long slender finial decorated with two flower-heads, and hinged circular case-hardened patch-box cover with a flower-head centred on a circular arrangement of scrolling foliage within a border of repeated flowering foliage. Engraved barrel-bolt escutcheons, sling mounts (ramrod missing), and retaining some original finish.
In associated partly relined and refitted brass-mounted oak case with some accessories including Sykes patent white-metal mounted powder-flask with bag-shaped body covered in black pigskin, and in fine condition, brass bullet mould serial numbered to the rifle, steel sprue-cutter, reproduction powder magazine painted black and 'Improved Rifle Powder.' in gilt, and with reproduction bullet swedge and two wooden bullet-starters, the interior of the lid with maker's trade label (damage), the exterior with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a flush-fitting circular brass carrying handle, London proof marks
Barrel Length - 75cm. Overall Length - 118cm.
Literature - Unsworth, p. 172. Recorded as sold on 15 August 1861 for £84.0.0. Built for The Earl of Ducie
Dallas, p. 192 - Henry John Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie (1827-1921), styled Lord Moreton between 1840 and 1853, was a courtier and Liberal Party politician. He served as Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard between 1859, the year he was admitted to the Privy Council, and 1866, and as Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall between 1888 and 1908. He lived at Tortworth Court, Gloucestershire, built between 1848 and 1853, and during the course of his life he spent much of his time acquiring unusual and exotic plants from around the world to plant in the grounds.
Offered with a facsimile of an article titled 'Crocodile Shooting', from ''Land And Water'', 3 February 1872.
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