Photo View: (12-314) DOUBLE CASED SET OF PURDEY 12 GAUGE SIDE LOCK BEST QUALITY SHOTGUNS

Featuring 30” barrels, English style straight stock, checkered butts, automatic ejectors, double triggers. Manufactured in approximately 1904; both guns are in beautiful condition with 95% vivid case colors remaining on the receivers. The bbls have been professionally re-done and retain all of the blue. Very extensively engraved with three game scenes on each sideplate as well as a pair of rabbits in a game scene on the floorplate. The tops of the receivers are chisel relief engraved quite deeply, the top openers are marked #1 and 2, a gold presentation plaque on the bottom of the stock indicating that they came from the Vanderbilt family. The pair of guns are in an original Purdey labeled case. One of the best pairs of guns that a person could hope for. Excellent condition inside and out. Complete with a factory letter from Purdy verifying that the guns were made for W.K. Vanderbilt Jr. as well as confirming all the original configuration such as bbl length and stock dimensions. The replacement cost on these would probably be well over $200,000 and 5 or 6 year wait.

M $ 85,000